Is this a dagger which I see before me?
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- The best "is this a dagger" mono ever! Taken from a 2010 version filmed for PBS and possibly my favourite version of the play.
2016 Edit:
I note all the students using the video to learn this monologue, which is great that I can help but PLEASE check it against a transcript from MacBeth is they often skips lines of this monologue for TV performances so I'm not certain it is all there...
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My students, watching this: "Man, he is *on* some shit."
I bet they also said ‘Wow English people talk funny’
Insightful.
You can't possibly think that reflects well on you.
@@gabbimurphy687 I think it reflects well on Patrick Stewart, who magnificiently was able to picture Macbeth's feverish mood, so that even if my students couldn't quite understand all the diction, they get the essence of Macbeth being in a not-quite-real space where the dagger he's seeing is all in his head. And I felt my students' take very succinct, if not particularly poetical. But being able to get at the sense behind the elegant poetry is a major step toward understanding Shakespeare.
@@Afalstein I think it reflects well on you as a teacher to allow them space to learn and understand this kind of complicated literature in the way they need to. He is THE shit, but yes on some shit would be a way to understand the process of Macbeth I guess. With a sensational way his mind works why not. Shakespeare has ways to interpret it. I appreciate you're students being engaged more than anything else - that's hard enough
I love how he casually flips off the camera
Nop Nops 1:43 😂
The sudden outburst of laughter is indescribable but this shall not get old
PLEASE MY CLASS HAVE A MASSIVE INSIDE JOKE ABOUT THIS
Thumbs up if you had to memorize and recite this passage in high school.
+Maizerus Currently watching this as inspiration for my speech tomorrow!
+Maizerus About to do the whole play in a week, So keen to do this scene!
+Maizerus why do you think I'm watching this?
+Maizerus Wow I didn't expect any replies at all. I memorized the passage 27 years ago. Guess this passage is fairly timeless if today young people are still memorizing it!
+ShehbazAhmed5 Fuck you
I go something like this when I'm drunk..
"Is this a beer which I see before me
The handle toward my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee."
Hope it wasn't a beer " of the mind " !
I’m borrowing that off you Ivan if you don’t mind.
@@2msvalkyrie529 roaring at the pair of you
2:42 moves like a ghost that’s when the heartbeat starts
More drinking less joking from you
had a classmate in school who came in high one day, and i mean high as a satelite surrounding our very earth. he sits himself on his spot, eyes red as the subscribe button on youtube, he keeps looking at a spot in the air in front of him, just like old mac does with the spot where he sees the dagger. so my mate trys to grab that spot in the air and smiles. the teacher eventually asks him what is ub with him and this behaviour. so my mate answers "cant you see the flying snickers?"
everytime i see this scene i just cant stop myself thinking about my mate and snickers
On another level🤣
lmaoo
This made me snicker.
Ahahaha
@@ohdeararat7947 Bahahahah 😂
I can't say I like the modern setting of this version of Macbeth, but it is still my favorite version because Sir Patrick is spectacular and sublime as Macbeth. Several of his monologues as Macbeth give me shivers.
That moment when you realize PROFESSOR X and MAGNETO are both Macbeth
Yes, and McAvoy and Fassbender heve done Macbeth also
whoa
PhantoMace2012 s
Could totally see both of them reciting macbeth in a comic panel, so quite fitting all around.
wait, magneto is played by Ian Macellen not patrick stewart
Ok i cannot be the only one who laughed when he said WOOOOLVES. besides that odd moment the performance is breathtaking.
My whole class just thought he was on crack😂, we liked the Polanski dagger scene a lot better 😂
a master of the arts. This performance is unrivaled!
I have to do this monologue for my drama class...... I wish I could borrow his voice for a day.....
Amen brother, same here
@@EE3rd Same here
I sincerely hope you got high marks for your efforts.
Amen 🙏 brother me too
Finger cross I’ll succeed
Lol he’s my grandad’s cousin and I gotta be him in the school play lmaoo
Is this a dagger I see before me ?.....Or are you just pleased to see me .?.
2msvalkyrie Owo *pokes bulge*
BRUUUH
*stabs stomach* take a wild guess
@@raspberrycrowns9494 depends who your talkin to ;)
We have to perform this for our Drama Assessment, no script to read off, nothing just straight from the top of our head and this is helping sooo much
I know this is eight years late, but I hope it went well.
@@MeanGreenMotherFrom Thank you! From memory I believe it went very well :)
I'm very glad.
@@MeanGreenMotherFrom I hope you have a great day 💗 loved your comment. Stay beautiful 🙏
Hey man, I wanted to thank you for posting this, because it was this exact speech that gave me the inspiration to perform this as a final exam project in my English class, bringing my final grade from a C to a B+. You rule and Patrick Stewart rules.
Thank you
Congrads Bro! I'm really happy for you.
@@MeanGreenMotherFrom you posted this reply seven years later
That’s amazing!! Congratulations!!
I really like the acting in this version. My mom says that he's too calm in the scene but I think it fits... I mean, he IS having a hallucination so he's definitely not in his right mind in this scene...
This is SO much better than the crappy BBC version with the soulless acting. This has actual emotion and is interesting
+Febi Jaimon
This was on BBC first you know? lol.
which BBC version are we talking about?
I loved this adaptation, interesting indeed.
I wonder why a BBC movie and/or tv show makes it crappy, but someone from the UK, someone from the same country, can make a bigger impact and give a better delivery, and give the character life? (Just going by what you say). Do you think the movie and/or tv show would have been better if Patrick or his buddy Ian had been in it?
The witches are terrifying in this one
Six years after memorizing this, then happily forgetting about it, I am living my life, buying groceries. Then, for no reason, it pops back into my head. Thanks brain, I needed that bit of random Shakespeare.
I am listening to this like 20 times to memorize it for english class :(
lol me too
Hahahaha same it's due tomorrow
Me too haha
me 5
The struggle is too real
Absolutely captivating... wow.
That shot of him at the end, walking down the dark corridor right towards the camera as he says the final line is so haunting!
Rupert Goold’s take on Macbeth was ingenious! Definitely the most terrifying version I’ve ever seen!
Right as he did the 'it is done' line my fan kicked into high gear... and I um, let's just say involuntary bodily functions were had out of fear.
"the bell invites me
hear it not Duncan
for it is a knell
that summons thee to heaven
... or to hell."
Oh man.
So many creepy lines
in this play
that send a shiver down your spine.
This is such an awesome performance and Pactrick Steward's acting is just perfect in this scene.
When you're older, you stop joking about it and know how deadly serious it is. Any man's predicament in life.
can anyone hear the subtle heart beat
yes, thanks for helping me analyze a bit more
except i sped up the playback speed so its really fast
To be honest, my attention was on Patrick the whole time. I didn't notice anything else.
It's such a sad thing that Patrick Stewart isn't ageless and immortal. We're going to lose him one day, just as we've lost other greats like Christopher Lee, and the world of theatre will become a darker, emptier place. :'(
bro that’s so dark gshshesnbejwbwbw
@Ali Said I- you’re watching a theatre video so probably you?
That’s really sad. He’ll be remembered and he will have a huge legacy even when he is lost
I really like this version. It has a somewhat modern aesthetic but not in a goofy or distracting way. There's a few things I'm not crazy about but overall it works really well.
if you look closely you can see the holodeck door in the background
3:43 "Computer! End program!!"
Never have I contemplated this Stewart fellow as marvelous as I have now seen him.
That was the most gripping acting I've ever seen in my entire life
I agree. He inspired me to get into Shakespeare. Even though I don't understand most of the words and phrases, I want to at least try. I think I'll start with Edgar Allen Poe. What do you think?
@@MeanGreenMotherFrom Poe is an excellent place to start, he's my favorite writer since middle School
I tried to follow my professor but one day I saw the dagger right before me. It changed my entire life.
I have an audition in 3 weeks time and this video has caused my mind to set solely on this monolouge. Never have I seen such emotion within a single individual.
woah, 9yrs later. Wonder how it went.
1:43 Aaand he's flipping us off.
ZMowlcher k
1:42
Yes! Mr Laake's English class... we had to say this soliloquy in front of the entire class...this was back in the early 80's. One of the things I will never forget from the H.S. years... Now.... "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."...lol
I have to right all of this tomorrow for a test. MEMORIZED!!! I got a paper of the word by word saying. But I need to study it. I cant use any notes or anything for it either. Looks to be a long, dreary night for me!
Hey Tal! Haha I handpicked this one to do for drama class!!!!
I watch this in class on a assignment about macbeth. when he did the howling part, the entire class nearly busted out laughing besides that i am really intrigued by this
How can dead language evoke such a true form to human nature. Disbelief, quavering faith, hatred; a raw and vulnerable living.
I absolutely love this!!! I've watched it over an over again today a total of seven times!! haha.
The art of theatre at its best!
Despite him being an incredible actor, This is just Captain Picard playing Macbeth.
+jazzykoenig No, it's Patrick Stewart.
In the holodeck, I assume??
LGranthamsHeir Either Picard made an actual set to put on a production for everyone on the Enterprise, or it is in the holodeck and he recorded it for Data so he understood more of the concept of art, not just painting
@Caleb Collier Your role is to be the ruler about to be murdered by the assassin
Your role is to be the assassin about to murder the ruler
I don't know if you saw this episode... but Picard quoted Shakespeare to Troi's Mother to save her from the Forengis. It was kinda funny, cuz Jean-Luc didn't want to do it in front of the crew.
The man is a master in every character he protrays.
In my Shakespeare class I have seen many adaptions of Mabeth, small scenes of course. But this adaption left a brilliant impression and watched the whole movie immediately. Patrick Stewart's performance was terrifyingly brilliant!
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
[a bell rings]
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Gonna make this effort look like an ad for an insurance company after performing it for my Drama assessment this afternoon
Hoo-OOOoooOooOowlz
que serasera exactly like that
2:26 is pure cinema
Just awesome. One of the few and only Star Trek characters to not be type cast.
This deserves a true honor in the form of a statement...
"HOLY SHIT!"
AHHH HAAAHA! LMBO.
THERE ARE 4 LIGHTTTTTTTTTTTS!!!!!!!!!
1:05 I think he skipped this part ''in form as palpable As this which now I draw''
they often do in visual performances, to save time
belshir rihsleb And to save daggers.
Yeah I saw that
That's something to look into.
I got the chills, just listening to this!
He made me feel the wolf.
I have to admit, for an old guy( i.e, old enough to be my grandpa) Patrick Stewart's a pretty good-looking dude. Well, that, and he's a phenomenal actor! Definately one of the best!
"Thou marshalls me the way that I was going... and such an instrument I was to use."
It's your quest log.
I memorized this for a presentation tomorrow!! and now realize how much i left out, lol
anyone else have to recite a line from macbeth for a grade in school? me and my group picked this exact scene lol.
I need to memorize this... I don't know how, and I have a creeping premonition I will never be as good as this.
We watched this in class and we laughed a lot,we laughed the most at 1:41 because the man is showing a middle finger.
amazin......this the best i cud ever get.... @g33kuk thanx a lot for uploadin... using this in my monologue play... it was of real help ...
Haha I had to memorize this for my senior English class and I just listened to this video a ton of times and I got most of it memorized woo!
I wish he kept “in form as palpable as this which now I draw” comparing a real dagger to his hallucination
So much better than the crappy version with macbeth’s Hair that’s slicked back with three barrels of hair gel. And no background and bad acting. This is gr8
Captain Picard always loved his Macbeth holodeck programs.
2:27 loving this revision
Wow!! I love it... But I have to memorize it for my exams. I'm sure this will help alot. And give a thumbs up if u had to or have to perform it in any stage of life
I GOT FLIPPED OFF BY PATRICK STEWART!!! MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!!!
John Trevor warburton?
Umut aktürk oh, Stuart! sorry, I meant to say Stuart. Terribly sorry. As you can tell I easily get the 2 confused.
John Trevor stewart
Umut aktürk yeah, as you can tell I'm a fucking idiot.
John Trevor still din't fix your comment xd
Thanks for posting this! It helped me win a monologue contest :)
its 12am and I just want to learn this speech without thinking of the shit emoji from the emoji movie
What an AMAZING performance...this scene has been perfected.
The greatest British actor of all time
Two legendary roles (Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Professor Charles Xavier) under his belt.
I tried to think of someone who was better, and I went WAAAAAY back in time. AAAnd.... nope! Pat's the man. He killed them all.
ughhh....I have to memorize this by tomorrow 😂
We watched the Trevor Nunn production in 3rd form at school, with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench. Life changing.
Dr Xaiver finally learning to use his powers I see.
Performing this for my University audition! If I can do a fraction as well, I'll be satisfied.
I have to recite this in class on thursday!!!
One of the greatest actors of our time.
Know what's great, this guy voiced the poop character in the emoji movie
I salute his acting chops, great Shakespeare Patrick!!!
When he howled it made me think Avery
I'm in love with Hamlet and Much Ado. Want to get into Macbeth. I do believe I will learn it from the best. I have found it.
leaning this in school rn
nice amongus
This is redicusly good
OMG THIS IS ME TODAY, i have to perfect this on 3 days ,i'm very excited but on the other hand , i know it will be challenging .
Can't believe I have to memorize these lines
SAME!!!
Who are you?
I have this memorized, and some lines were skipped in this performance
Sir Patrick Stewart - one of the great actors of our time. To see his serious work is incredible. Yet i'm still on the fence as to whether i prefer his Shakespeare, or his Bullock. " Steve Smith, Ricky Spanish, we're doing cocaine and shooting guns. Join us!"
He forgot “in form as palpable which now that I draw”
That acting... Goosebumps.
beautiful
wtf how does this help me with anything
among us?
perk bruh
only here because of school :{
This.. Is so awesome!
"Number One, Line! I seem to have forgotten several."
"You better leave the holodeck and go to sick bay asap, Captain!"
He is just Brilliant. I'd love to see him play King Lear.
Who else burst out laughing while watching this in school
Me when he started slashing at the air..
Me when he howled
got an urge to watch this out of nowhere????
As you can see captain Picard is enjoying the holodeck on his spare time
Thanks to this I learnt this in 40 minutes.. Gotta present for drama :D
I'm just here to stick this shit on replay and try to get it drilled into my head.
This grade is worth more than my goddamn final
PS is so good. brings life to the words.
This was his last chance to turn around and not kill Duncan. He should’ve retreated from this evil plan, for his own sake if for no other reason. He should’ve realized at that moment that there would be many blood-stained daggers for him in the future, each more frightening than the one before, unless he turn back now. The bell ringing snapped him back to his determination to go through with it. But his mind is already not strong enough to endure the plague of guilt.
Some of the actions are hilarious! XD
Missed a line, but still, creepy-good! I have to recite this speech for class.