David Morrissey as Richard III: ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ | Shakespeare Solos
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2016
- David Morrissey speaks the opening lines from Richard III in which the scheming Richard lays out his plan to turn his brothers, the Duke of Clarence and the newly enthroned King Edward IV, against each other. To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays.
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This was chilling. Poor Richard III had no chance in history after Shakespeare wrote this masterpiece.
When David paused and said "I" he looked the way the governor used to when properly pissed. What an actor.
David Morrissey is a superb actor and was criminally misused in the Walking Dead. I love the choices he makes, exemplified here in the way he leans forward to deliver "but I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks" and the timbre of his voice descends, like Richard's thoughts, down to his soul. Chilling.
Seán Ó Caoimh same can be said about many of the actors on that show. The writing is laughably terrible in that show and the actors can only do so much with the material they’re given.
I agree-- his choices are so unique and his voice is so chilling. I filmed this soliloquy recently and would like to share it with anyone in the comment section looking for more interpretations or anyone fascinated like the nerd I am with this hugely dimensional, amazing character: Richard III.
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This actor is great in Britannia. Frightening even. Awesome at playing villains
Agreed. The anger that drives Richard jumped off my screen at me, Error Gorilla.
Criminally misused? No way. He did great work on that show. Carried season 3 and 4. Not everything has to be Shakespeare. The Walking Dead serves its purpose and does its job, just as David Morrissey does on that show.
to be honest this is one of the best soliloquy i have ever seen.....just great
Shakespeare is the best psychologist of all times...even better than Dostoevski...
John Mulligan you talk as if you were around in Shakespeare’s day. If that’s the case fair enough. If not you’re just being pretentious.
Keep looking
Really? It's not particularly strong, at all.
great soliloquy, totally agree
What power. This single clip would make me pay the money only to watch him play the whole part on stage. Never heard of Morrissey before this, never seen any tv or film or remembered.
Played Gunther Weber in Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Seen him play Macbeth on stage, he was wonderful
He was also excellent, albeit in a small role, as Northumberland in BBC’s production of the Henriad plays, “The Hollow Crown.” I believe he appears in Richard II and both parts of Henry IV.
Loved him in the newer Sense and Sensibility 😌😌
He’s a very respected actor in the UK with a fairly substantial body of work. He’s extremely well cast here.
In Stratford on Avon outside an outdoor equipment shop appeared a sign saying
‘Now is the discount of our winter tent’
Brill Mr Morrissey sur.
Beautiful voice. Great interpretation. Great actor. Very superb. I love Richard III. For me whit the Julius Caesar is the masterpieces of the historical drama by Shakespeare
A wonderfully rich performance-you can hear the pure determination in his scheming!
Liam Neeson's twin brother
Yes, the voices are remarkably similar!
In side profile, yeah, somewhat.
Liam's the only brother who hasn't done a Shakespeare solo on this channel. David did it, and so did Ralph
He has a set of skills
Evil twin.
In my personal, humble opinion, this is by far the best rendition of this text online. It seems imbued with tension, anger, regret and impulse. It betters Cumberbatch, McKellen and many others. There is absolutely no overkill, I love it- it leaves me feeling, menaced, worried and slightly anxious..great performance.
Wow!! The most beautifully dramatical & rich voice & fantastic acting skills. In awe.
I come back and listen to this from time to time- it's like music to my ears.
True. Same.
Wow! His voice when he said an intense "I" gave me chills
my voice will give you more than chills
One of the finest readings I've seen/heard.
One of the best renditions certainly.
Might be the greatest opening line Shakespeare wrote.
‘Now is the winter of our discontent’ doesn't even comes close to "To be or not to be. That is the question".
@@luiscaetano6184 >opening line
@@friedrich3384 "To be or not to be" is an opening line.
@@luiscaetano6184 no, it is not. Hamlet opens with "Who's there?"
This Gentleman is the real deal.
Dear gods, I got chills!
you are the best Richard III so far!!!! Bravo!!!!
Bravo! I would watch him in Richard III. Just excellent.
This is Richard lll
Cold steel performance here. Wonderful to watch.
This is my favorite Shakespeare play, this opening soliaque( sorry spelling) by ' the governor" is amazing
What a performance! Brilliant!
Indeed yes. It brought chills down my spine.
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun
And descant on mine own deformity:
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,
By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,
To set my brother Clarence and the king
In deadly hate the one against the other:
And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,
About a prophecy, which says that 'G'
Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here
Clarence comes.
David "The Governor" Morrissey. Great performance.
This is so well done. Your presentation perfectly captures how Richard wrestled with natural evil and hardens himself.
My favorite Shakespeare soliloquy.
Got chills. Didn't realise it was the Governor at first but when I did I realized how underutilized he was in TWD. Great rendition.
Phenomenal performance. One of the best.
Wonderful beyond measure.
Bloody brilliant!
Wonderfully relaxed delivery
Delightful performance
EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Precise, sharp, to the point on Richard's descent and ever so chilling.
I love how much venom he puts into this performance.
I just knew David Morrissey for the walking dead, but that was amazing. It was powerfull and chilling.
Wow. brilliant
brilliant
Interesting choices, to run through the usually blustery beginning as a simple train of quiet thought, focusing instead on his catalog of complaints and the source of all his bile: that is, his deformity and all the ways in which the world has rejected him.
A bit of Richard's heartache came thru here - a thing I've always found in the words but rarely seen. I'm older now; perhaps my eyes will be wiser.
Excellent voice
This is the most realstic and natural sounding Richard lll
Wonderful voice.
Very fine portrayal. But I don't like the idea of "who's the best." Shakespeare's words are so profound that if you can recite them with conviction, you're halfway there. If a singer can properly manage Verdi's notes, you can't help but deliver a fine performance.
You give the actors too little credit then.
I agree with you. But why oh why did they edit this speech so that R III doesn't say "can I do all this and yet not gain a crown--Tut! Were it further off, I'd pluck it down!
I mean really, many times they cut that part out... really ruins it for me.
Ssshhhh... quiet friend Glo. Though thou are free to speak truth be wary, for truth often in free courts danger thus... Slings and arrows and outrageous fortunes cries poor mad Hamlet. For in truth he spoke but wrong ears heard and a sea of troubles was his heartache... Ssshhhh...
I disagree with the last bit. Acting goes so much father than pronouncing the words competently- at least when the passages are so iconic. But lots of different interpretations are interesting and valid.
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Ralph Fiennes did that part and he slayed it too.
These are great because they make me want to see the actors and actresses play these roles
He's very smooth on his transitions... Whayyyy, I!
Perfection…
Masterful
What an excessively handsome Richard III
"You poisonous, bunch-backed toad!"
Superb!
Amazing
Fucking amazing
At last! An unpretentious Shakespeare soliloquy! Well spoken.
I can't hear this without hearing Greg Davies impersonating Chris Eubank
IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES
IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES
Magnificent
Amazing ...
Even better than I thought it would be! I enjoyed Mr Morrissey’s performance in “The Hollow Crown” series as the Earl of Northumberland in “Richard II.” I would recommend that series to anyone; his acting there is awesome!
Brilliant.
Awesome 👍
I want to study Shakespeare under this great man.
Flawless Victory!!
respect..
Amazing.
chilling
Basicaly Richard III was the first Incel.
Great perfomance for one of my favorite characters!
The immobility of his eyes freezes my blood
By far, he’s the Michael Jordan of his contemporary film actors who perform Shakespeare exceptionally.
First two lines have perfect iambic pentameter lilt with stress on even syllables... except for "Now" which, as Al Pacino rightly states in "Looking for Richard" with Spacey, is the offbeat syllable that needs to be emphasized, since it is the critical word in the sentence, if not in fact the entire soliloquy.
Hypnotizing * o *
Where can one get the ambient moody drone in the background? I have looked on youtube, but nothing comes close.
The Winter of Discontent monologue is from Act I Scene II, not Scene I as indicated in this video.
RICHARD!!!
That would be so awesome as a metal song! (as would many things from our beloved Shake)
This is music
Oh my gosh. This was exquisite. Terrifying. Burning.
Un lujo poder escuchar estos pequeños fragmetos interpretados por estos Grandes actores de la escena britanica contemporanea.
awesome reading by philip blake.
Why have you left warp stabiliser on?
Now is the winter of our discontent... yet, as I am, not deformed as yore, an ole MacMathieu, not a plotting Macbeth, nor Richard III of gore... I hope still at my age, to prove a lover, and savor sweet the nectar dripping as wine, from lips eager to meet with mine.
Résumé of my life.
C'est si bien dit.
"Malheur à vous si comme moi, vous allez au plus profond de cette chose horrible qui peut vraiment rendre fou - se trouver à côté d'un autre être que l'on regarde dans les yeux - comme moi j'ai regardé un jour certains yeux - et se sentir comme un mendiant devant une porte qu'il ne pourra jamais franchir"
(Traduit de L. Pirandello, Henri IV)
Here Clarence comes...
He has a piercing gaze. 😃👍
Hey there, guv'ner!
Richard sounds exactly like Don John in
Much Ado
Wow
Someone needs remake “Othello” just to cast David Morrissey as Iago.
I can just picture in The Walking Dead, a henchman comes into the Governor’s office as the governor is sharpening his hunting knife. The underling stutters out the fact that Andrea, Maggie and Glen have escaped and, without warning, the Governor violently stabs the knife into his desk before giving this dialogue as the underling grows ever more fearful of him 😂
Governor??? .__.
I've loved DM ever since the peerless Red Riding.
A truly remarkable series.
@@Shadowman4710 it really is. It's on ITVx if you don't have it.
In a way, David Morrisey portrayal of The Governor reminds me now in some ways of Richard 3. A corrupt, ruthless and deformed leader
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In contrast to Sir Laurence Olivier’s take on Richard III, this performance, and also that of others in this series, is more intimate. All close-ups - allowing actors to be natural and real, with voice barely whispering. However can this translate well on a wide theater stage?
When you hand your work in at last
Incredible performance. Curious to think that Richard the third entire motivation boils down to the man being an involuntary celibate.
So far, Ron Cook's version is my favorite. This weekend, we'll see how Benedict Cumberbatch does it.
Cumberbatch did an amazing job. A bit more tortured than Morrisey's.
+Mark van der Laan I just saw bits of it. Pretty good!
Andrew Scott should have been cast as Gloucester. He did one of Gloucester's speeches in an episode of Simon Schama's Shakespeare and it was brilliant.
Brilliant bass voice inflection dialect pause
Oh how we anglos laughably need this to help decypher meaning of our own language
As students hated today appreciate
Thank you.
There is no such thing as a dialect pause! Do you mean a pause in the dialogue?
It is not easy to speak Shakespeare clearly and simply- it is not at all the same as speaking conversational modern English. Your sarcasm is misplaced
As is your attempt to be clever.
Anglo?!!!
@@janel342 I think they’re referring to iambic pentameter
Hardcore
Take this tone to Parliament
This guy could play in House of Cards ll: Frank underwood re-incarnation.
Still blows me away that this is the Governor!
Far better than that prancing ponce Olivier by an order of magnitude. Olivier was always far too "over the top" in his cinematic Shakespeare -- being a stage actor he seemed to have a difficult time comprehending how the immediacy of the camera allowed understatement and nuance to play in ways that simply weren't possible in a stage production. The tiny, subtle shifts of Morrisey's expression (0:09-0:11, 0:37-0:38, 1:08, 1:21-1:22, 1:30, 1:46, 1:49-1:52(!) 2:02-2:07) that are visible here and so expressive would be invisible to the audience in a live theatre.
Well he was probably the first to do it. People weren't as used to camera acting and even back then the style of acting wasn't like that. Hard to call it "better" in any shape or form, because the standards and the expectations were entirely different.
I would agree with you, except that, if I did, we would both be wrong....
Olivier s Richard the III.is the best Richard III of all time.its also considered the best all around Shakespearean performance all time.john Gielgud Hamlet is the second best Shakespearean performance of all time
Olivier' Othello is fantastic also.although it is quite theatrical.people say he wasn't a good film actor.that may have been true.(im a huge Brando fan)...i thought Olivier's performance in marathon man.is without a doubt. one of the best performance's ever recorded on film
Marlon Brando(who would know) even said he felt Olivier did his best work towards the end of his life.....marlon Brando and Olivier are considered by many legions of famous actors.to be the two greatest actors who ever lived.anybody who says differently.are people who really don't know what thier talking about.... nuff said