Richard II: "Aye, No, No, Aye" speech
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- 0:00 - An Age of Kings, 1960, Tom Fleming & David William
0:29 - BBC Shakespeare, 1978, Jon Finch & Derek Jacobi
1:05 - The Hollow Crown, 2012, Rory Kinnear & Ben Wishaw
1:33 - Royal Shakespeare Company, 2013, Nigel Lindsay & David Tennant
Derek Jacobi is just perfection! He absolutely breaks your heart.
Ben is the best. really got me into richard the 11. love his performance and Rory Kinnear . and the end o god the end . breaks my heart each time. must have watched the hollow crown 40 times by now. O god and Patrick Stewart brilliant.
I prefer Ben Wishaw's subtlety over the others' scream of "no!"
Derek Jacobi!! Then Ben.
I liked David William and Ben Wishaw the most. They approached this is a completely different way, but both interpretations are valid. William is calculating megalomaniac, he's still seeing himself as the star. As much as he can he wants to steal the show from Henry. He's playing for the audience - the audience being courtiers, soldiers etc. I also loved the way he pronounced "nothing". Wishaw on the other hand is a lost, uncertain, confused little boy. I was not convinced by Derek Jacobi. I thought he himself was uncertain how to approach this line. Still it's passable. I found David Tennant's interpretation to be far the worst. Adding silly comedy to this piece of dialogue was out of place.
Looks like Wishaw got it right.
Until Ben Wishaw, I preferred Fiona Shaw's Richard II, which more people really should see. Of this group, I used to prefer Jacobi, but not for this scene. As someone else said, Jacobi didn't seem to know how to play this scene. I will be searching William's version out as I have only seen a couple of scenes. As for Tennant's humor, Richard II is constructed (as are all of the Bard's tragedies) to elicit laughs here and there; straight tragedy is boring and unrealistic. Both Tennant and Wishaw play Richard's uncertainty well, knowing what is expected of him but unable to bear it. Surrender, retreat, surrender again, much as I imagine the historical Richard must have felt. But Wishaw played it better.
David tennant has a nice girly hair