"Macbeth" - Dench/McKellen -1979, Trevor Nunn, Dir. 

Now THAT is how Shakespeare should be done She had me captivated to the last second

I saw this LIVE in London. I was 9 years old. No interval: Trevor Nunn wouldn't allow it. Once you were in, you were IN. No escape. Never forgotten it...

nothing but the best performance i have ever seen. You can see all the layers of lady macbeth in this speech. this is one of the strongest reasons i can see that she got the knighthood.

"The raven himself is hoarse...who croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan...under *my* battlements." Absolutely spellbinding and chilling.

Hauntingly brilliant. It's like she's being possessed. Judi is one of the greatest actresses of all time.

When she said "fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty" I got chills. It's as if she had seen a snake or a spider... Ahhh Judi

These two (Dench and Mckellen) were so fucking good in this. Love it. Dench is out of this world here … from another world ...

Take a bow, Judi Dench! As always, never fails to capture the attention of the audience throughout the length of the performance.

Doing this scene for my LAMDA exam in less than two weeks. I've only known the play for about a week, and it really is a challenge. Judi Dench really is the best actor for anyone who is researching and planning to perform for a Shakespeare play for a Performing Arts Exam, like I am. Many thanks for uploading this!

Incomparable. Quite possibly the finest actress of all time. From Shakespeare to comedy to Bond, her range and popularity is vast.

Oh, so wonderful! Such an understated performance compared to the screeching and howling Lady Macbeths you often see in this scene - fantastic!

The full play was removed. It's amazing how good it is, such a pity. If only someone would upload it again :(

She’s hauntingly captivating in this role

Judi Dench is amazing!

GREAT THANK YOU

Oh I wish I saw this 8 years ago!

this helps me so much! :) I love the person who uploaded this !

Thanks for uploading! Had to do an audition using part of this speech - it was a great help! Shakespeare doesn't get much better than this...

This really helps me figure out my character, im having to do the lines "The raven him self...Hold! Hold! for my exam. It really helps me understand the mood.

oh judi you perfect perfect woman

wow i am this character in a play this IS A BIG PART

A performance to stop air traffic in its tracks. How anyone can be this astonishing for 10 minutes, let alone for a lifetime, is beyond me. [To say nothing of Dame Judy's 'support' in this scene!].

Unmatched indeed.

Shakespeare's great roles are open to interpretation. And although I love Dame Judi, I'm underwhelmed by this speech. Perhaps I'm spoiled because I saw Glenda Jackson perform the role on Broadway. There is a short clip of that performance on RU-vid, worth seeking out. Jackson grabs the role by the balls.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXTRAORDINARIAAAAAAAAAAA.

astonishing .

Damn, Sir Ian was a handsome devil thirty years ago...

Still is, still is...

Legend

I've had some 'weird sisters" in my life too!

Cool cool! Sometime its hats off to the internet's and all its stars

A-MAZE-ING

Shakespeare would say thanks to both Dame Judi Dench and RU-vid))) Loved the performance!! Good we have chance to see it here! Thank you for uploading it!

Absolutely

Those eyes!

this is for english hw

super acting

Lady Judi Dench WOW, One of my dream roles. Gender-bend

No one in my english class but me that saw this knew that Ian McKellen was Macbeth.

In the 1st murder, both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth commit together as a team. They have the best marriage in Shakespeare.

my GOD.

What the hell has my teacher got our class watching?!

This is how it should be

Sadly, the raven was not hoarse. 1:55 The messenger should have had some kind of hoarseness or scratchiness in his voice. An emotional catch in the voice would work. A break in the voice such as a 13-year old boy going through a voice change would be fine, too. Another option ... he could rush in out of breath and the lack of breath could cause the hoarseness. Missed opportunity.

Yeah, very true (referring to steeling herself). I think it is also about one's personal take on the piece, everyone's opinion will be different as everyone will see it differently - I performed her 'un-sex me here' soliloquy as if she was scheming on the spot as the plan formulated in her mind, and as if she were possessed - the whole 'beyond the point of no return' thing.

@AtLastOnTheGround THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID! But in all seriousness, Dame Judy Dench had an excellent performance here.

One of the greatest soliloquies in the English language...nearly ruined for me by HYSTERICAL closed captioning🤣

Tis "interesting" that JD performs Lady Macbeth's famous 'un-sex me here' soliloquy as if she's scared of what she is about to do. I see Lady Macbeth as a much stronger lady and 'willing' [if that's the right word] to kill Duncan in order to gain the consequences that would come from such a terrible action ; a more forth-right woman, scarier almost.

hi

what's the best in your opinion?

2:22

3:11

I barely dared type the Thane's name in the search bar.

Please folks! It's Shakespeare you can find the right words and spellings for the closed captions!!! When the caption read "Thai lettuce" that really was too much! Please fix this!

Bunch of dorks you all are. Haunting this haunting that. It’s a play nothing more.

4:34 Smallest personal bubble ever. XD

I can’t be the only one who doesn’t understand a word they’re saying

I hate that i have to watch this for school

hahahahaha, I was thinking exactly the same thing

@wasbedeutetjemanden Don't just assume that Lady Macbeth is stronger, that's what she wants you to think. Macbeth is a strong man. The difference is that Lady Macbeth comes over the top, and Macbeth comes up from underneath.

That isn’t Sir Ian Mckellen it is Greg Hicks.

This may be how Shakespeare should be done and unfortunately, RU-vid hasn't completed their work. The closed captioning is full of crude language and garbled sentences. It is unfortunate as I had high hopes to finally begin to understand what it was about Shakespheare that captivates those with hearing.

Miss Jenkyns is nice

Is it me or that it seemed like she was speaking an another language

anyplace i could find the full version of this movie?

What is this?

@Brideshead09 I just spat over my shoulder, don't worry ...aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The roof is caving in!

Judi Dench is an incredible actress. She is just perfect for the stage, her instincts are wonderful. Listen to how she takes Shakespeare, which is too often interpreted in that annoying traditional -- fake! -- voice. And here she is, reading it as a human being, as Lady Macbeth herself would read this.

I'm hearing the voice of M supposed to getting mad at Bond. :-D

Anyone here in Ms. Butler's class? Haha.

@Brideshead09 ah, Julius Ceaser...not Macbeth

is everyone here for homework?

What was it like for Ian to have to kiss a girl? I guess that’s acting.

Me not knowing what’s happening

Full play here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7skhaOegpLA.html

This was one damn good Lady Mac. But Polanski's choice of actor was awesome.

She looks so much like Marcia Gay Harden here.

no the floor creaks, shes in a 400 year old building....

Someone help me with my assessment plse

Wew

"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it." I do agree that she is a talented actress, but not only does she ignore the rhythm shakespeare is meant to be spoken in, she completely disregards Shakespeare's advice to actors through the words of Hamlet. (I have received training from someone trained by the Globe. I can tell you now, while they would like her obvious passion through her tone, they would have cringed at her overextended pauses, her over-exaggerated movements, and lack of paying attention to the punctuation within the writing... her overall disposal of the proper rhythm.)

Why is she wearing a bald cap

decidedly the best lady mac.. harriet wheelers is good and sinead cusacks was [layed as child bride but the sexual stuff between them is off the charts great. peerless.

Me not knowing any single name she said

LADY MACBETH Lady Macbeth, na pintura de Henry Fuseli, Carrega a tocha, dentro da noite, a andar Cheia de ambição, é o que dizem, e eu li Tormentos se formando, sem ela acreditar. O poeta piauiense Da Costa e Silva não Pôde entendê-la: senhora, amante ou serva Oferecendo-lhe o ideal posto em ágil ação, Sem ouvi-lo, o destino sombrio lhe reserva O que somente o amor pode transmudar. Vivenciar o amor desinteressado é ciência Que deslinda tudo o que pode se mudar. Na luz das galáxias, imantada em tudo, Lady Macbeth a possui, sem a consciência Que pode ser estrela no seu mundo surdo. (*) (*) FERNANDO PINHEIRO, presidente da Academia de Letras dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil. - LADY MACBETH (poesia), de Fernando Pinheiro. - in O mundo de Morfeu, de Fernando Pinheiro.

This music for Lady Macbeth captures this scene perfectly! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v9t75ZyRe2w.html ❤

Outstanding acting! Too bad about the hideous production...

I don't see the hype

Gimmicky. (A) Observe her realistically reading the letter, then leaving off and speaking, presumably from memory, much more of its conclusion than would be possible; (B) what's the crouching and reaching out about when involing the spirits? And what's the nonsense about running away for a second before finishing? (C) That protracted face-rubbing and Eskimo-kissing during Lady M's attempt to persaude M to murder has an unfortunate muddying and "generalizing" effect on the text.

i think this is bad and over hyped

Over acting.

this is shit