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Love to hear your delivery. DELIVERY? - a fucking amatuer for sure. Go to my website and read my resume, no talent moron!

Take a boo at my Hotspur speech - a devil to perform.

Don't really care how many likes. If people think they can do better let them try. Of course all these 35 have been memorized. that is what I do!

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i saw most of your video. Your Russian antithetical way of thinking is very like Shakespeare's. Some type of antithetical shading is in most of his lines. He ALWAYS sees the other side to any problem. I believe that there is only one truly evil character in Shakespeare, Aaron in Titus Andronicus, and all the other "villains" are just highly conflicted people. If you are trying to make your way in this world, your most important tool will be your ability to speak well. If you wish to master English, my website will be your richest resource. www.shakespeareoutloud.ca The secret is practice, which is what you were doing in your video. Think clearer, write more and PRACTICE speaking.

Of course he should be younger; I played him 40 years ago. Your approach is typical, too typical. Almost all actors play Edmund imagining success, but the more interesting path for such a character is having to struggle against an unjust world, with nothing decided except more struggle. Playing him as though he knows he will win, makes him improbable and actually rather stupid. I suppose you might also like to see Gloucester being played rather stupid, which makes him an unworthy first minister for Lear. I suggest you also listen to my Thou Nature, and you might begin to understand the anger Edmund feels at the world in general that treats him so poorly. If success were that easy he would have acted before. His father plans to send him away again and he MUST act now, is almost being forced to act now. There are no completely evil characters in Shakespeare except Aaron in Titus Andronicus. If you suppose to be some kind of Shakespearean actor or critic, I suggest you not play the end of the journey, but take it step by step. Your way is cliched and essentially bores an audience. (oh, there is the evil guy.) BTW, if you think you can improve upon my reading, I would love to see and hear it. Also take a look at my Goneril. She too is pissed and acts for good reason. Labelling Shakespearean characters as good and bad makes them comic book characters, when Shakespeare only knew complexity. If you want to learn more go to www.shakespeareoutloud.ca.

Thought I would say that this may not be the way I personally would perform this monologue, it's a mistake to say this is how a moment in Shakespeare 'is' or 'should be'. One of the wonderful things Shakespeare's plays have provided us, is centuries-worth of productions, with a myriad of ways in which to approach so many characters. There is no one single way to interpret a character like Edmund (or any other for that matter). Do you play him as a man of intricately-planned action, or as a reactionary improvisor? Does he imagine success from the first moment he appears on stage, or is he lost in a swirl of anger through his struggles? Does he crave power? Land? Inheritance? sex? his father's approval? Is it some, or all of these? The text backs up all these choices - it is up to the actor to make the choices. Rodger has clearly made choices here, and that is a good thing. You can be critical of those choices - and believe a different approach may work better - but I'd be careful of statements such as 'should-be-like-this', etc.

@@seanflierl2715 My, that was a long time ago. Oh sure, there are many ways to do a Shakespeare soliloquy that might work well. So I don't claim to embrace a definitive way to do this. But I would say this. This passage strikes me as written just dripping with cynicism and mockery--as much as anything I can think of in Shakespeare. So it would seem to me most consistent with Edmund's mindset here if there were more downright vulgar emphasis in words like "compounding" and "bastardizing." In the expression of "compounding" I would like to get more of a feel of mom and dad (com)pounding up-and-down in their pure animality at the moment of Edmund's creation. And I'd love to hear more cynical vulgarity in Edmund revelling in the moment of his BAstardizing, in his telling the world how he has no need for their delicate, effete ways. Is this the only reasonable take on the passage? I'm sure it isn't.

@@RobMorrison97 and I think what is most exciting around all this, is the discussion. How great is it to be able to talk about different interpretations, and to have back and forth conversations around a performance? As an actor, I have no personal issue with someone having a preference that may be different to how I’ve performed a given piece. Your comment was unfortunately met with a strange antagonism by Rodger (which seems to apply to anyone who comments on his pieces in any way that isn’t glowing praise). Which is a shame. Discussion around Shakespeare is fun to have with others, and we are never perfect in how we may perform a role! Have you had the chance to perform much Shakespeare? Or do you prefer to academically analyse? (Both completely valid courses, to be clear)

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@@grawakendream8980 I misunderstood and didn't have to memorize it. Lol. I had three more weeks lol. Tortured myself for no reason. But I was ahead of the game at least

Funny. If you look at my texts you will see that I have formatted them as thoughts. Having done many productions with world class actors I can assure you that they all make Shakespeare sound like invented thought and not metronomic chanting. Ill informed teachers and professors, who would never be allowed on professional stages revel in this type of rhythmic minutia. I make choices like this for clarity, whatever will help whoever is listening understand what my character is thinking. Acting is about THINKING. All this reverence for supposed rules is for amateurs, which the theatrical world suffers greatly from. Don't play for an untalented stuffy prof, play for someone intelligent. Regards, RB

CAN'T FIGURE OUT UA-cam. for questions rbartonsol@shaw.ca www.shakespeareoutloud.ca Rodger

well Bob, please do better

I guess "they" means me, but that last line is almost inscrutable, and without the face, incomprehensible for a modern audience. Don't state or recite Shakespeare, invent or fresh-mint it. www.shakespeareoutloud.ca

First of all it is not read, it is played. I know all these speeches. The Macbeth wants to Murder Duncan, knows his wife will push him to do it but is afraid of getting caught. These cold, hard Macbeths, even Patrick Stewarts, all go too slow, are too disengaged from the warrior's blood coursing within them. Tell me a time in the play when he not stressed or angry or disappointed or confused. To my mind, one can't be a great Shakespearean actor without lots of anger -Christopher Plummer's words, not mine. If you want cold, disengaged Shakespeare, that is easy to perform, the internet is the place for you. I also concentrate heavily on INVENTING not reciting my language. That practice excites all sort of emotions. For more information please visit www.shakespeareoutloud.ca. Ta for the reply.

@@shakeoutloud I didn’t say it was a bad thing. It just caught me off guard, I respect that you view the character differently than I do. Shakespeare is up for the artists interpretation. Sorry if I came off as critical.

@@shakeoutloud I do think in the following lines in which he says “I have bought golden opinions as of late, and they should be worn now in their newest gloss not cast aside so soon” shows that he’s struggling with what the right thing to do is, not just scared to get caught. I wasn’t a fan of Patrick Stewart’s MacBeth but I think Michael Fassbender portrayed him really well and I loved his delivery on this speech. But that’s just my take on it. I’m not Shakespeare I don’t know what he intended.

@@jaydenmathews359 Michael Fassbender? I have seen so many and been in a few, even Maggie Smith's, but that is a new name to me. I shall find this version. While I have never seen the role played to perfection I do believe Judi Dench retired Lady Macbeth. She got it all, even re-reading the letter. Opaque is a word I always have to re-look up, but it sure applies to Shakespeare. As an actor, I search endlessly for thought-connections, then just play with the best I can find.

That newest gloss stuff is not right, it simply implies a longer, more careful approach to the crown, always the goal. They have plotted this for years!@@jaydenmathews359

It was hard to do, and I am still not satisfied. It took me about 50 takes to get right. It is also the most dense speech I have done yet, the way the thoughts are interconnected. Now that I have finally done some females, Romans and Hamlet, I will re-grow my winter-beard and delve back into the killers and schemers so prevalent in Shakespeare. I am 69 so all this memorization is really great alzheimers prevention - at least that is my hope. What I find odd is, like my series, there appears to be no such collection yet on the internet. Most of the kids trying speeches have had little training. For me, it is my covid hobby. Thanxs for the encouragement, Scott; it is much appreciated. Rodger www.shakespeareoutloud.ca

That might be a while. Just posting Lennox from Macbeth and about to shoot Macbeth, :"To be thus" I'll need to live with "to be" for a while first.

I have no director telling me to run around a stage like some acrobatics champion, while beating out some moronic rhythm. I just try to invent Shakespeare, and Puck is, after all, a very merry prankster!

Goodness, thank-you. www.shakespeareoutloud.ca I am not trying to change her sex, I am trying to show how Shakespeare fresh-minted, invented, is much more believable that Shakespeare recited or chanted. Can you hear it in my choices? Try another; they are all invented.

@@shakeoutloud Forgive me for sounding churlish. Late night posting with too many drams . . . I have now discovered your other monologues, for which much thanks. Your novel interpretation of the Agincourt speech is impressive!

Well, I just learned that one can communicate like we are on youtube. St. Crispian's shouldn't be novel, but it is usually played like some sort of victory speech; I think Harry just wants them all to die well, as the story would surely forecast.

Go to my site and pick a speech. Practice it, learn it by heart, then tape it. Then do another. Like anything, one gets better at oral communication by practicing. I spent hundreds of hours with the speeches just on this channel. If you can master one speech, seem like you are inventing it, all your speaking will improve. www.shakespeareoutloud.ca