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I agree !

You can’t really say it was anyone’s fault (other than the wired sisters) lady Macbeth played a large role in convincing him to kill the king in the first place so its definitely not Macbeths fault.

@@KdpaintedYeah bud, in the play.

Until this video I didn't even know that M Beth was a real person.

Bcz the narrator dr.louis seems like that character so she is relating every women to herself.

​@Jeff Oliver Lol! Tina MacTurner

@@AKG-e6j What she's talking about with that is outright how nobility and royalty worked back then. Marriage for Love for a good part of history was a rare thing. And for a decent part of that rarity was also a "peasants thing" not a thing of Nobility. The reality is that She probably didn't even love her first husband so loving MacBeth didnt' factor into it either. This was about politics, and alliances, and power. Marriage secured these things and more. Plenty of nobility only had sexual relations with their spouses often enough to secure Heir's and daughters to be married off to the heirs of other families and then cut things off. Some had other lovers and as long as that didn't create issues from things like childbirth many didn't care.

Perhaps a good scriptwriter?

@@janetmackinnon3411 Well yeah, the "scriptwriter" was Shakespeare himself! Those are words from Macbeth.

... or even so much as a cunning plan 😉

I love him sooooooo much.

Even with the bad sound, but it gets better as you get into it, or maybe my old age is doing it, or too many drugs in the 70's, or I'm just plain tired. No matter, like you said, it's Tony.

@@laurievandenbeldt6353 it gets around the copy right issue

Agreed!

Good for you! Shakespeare should be sounded out or acted and watched..not read in silence!

Of course, the notes we got... were to spit those lines out as fast as possible... on stage, anyway.

This is quite incredible, I had the same experience as you Annette. When I read Macbeth in class, about 1965 in think, I was dyslexic and didn't know it. So then read more than the other classmates. BTW I didn't know about dyslexia until I was 40 -45.

That was a wise teacher indeed; you were fortunate.

Or eye of newt! That could've gone wrong too!

Clever lol

wing of bat. Love your humor. I smile. Thx

annoyed707 excellent

well, Eye of newt or tongue of dog isn't right for sure,,

HOT ALLAN AT 14:24 !!! WHOAH AND THANK YOU !

The history behind the play contributes much to the understanding of the play. It makes the play that much more meaningful when one understands both the past history-the real Macbeth and his times-and Shakespeare’ and King James’s own times.

@@shalevedna Exactly.

One son , Duncan .

Oops.

Most don't know Shakespeare fell out of favor with Queen Elizabeth after she caught him docking with Sir Walter Raleigh.

Yes and the only indigenous peoples on these islands are the Celts, Picts and Britons, Anglo's and Saxons are Germanic peoples, so if we are Anglo-Saxon we are German.

Thanks for the endnotes on this I was really wondering what had happened to Gruroch and the children and wished that had been included in the program.

Truth wasn't worth losing one's head over 🤔

His histories were not historical, his comedies were not comical but his tragedies weere tragic, in the pathetic sense of the word.

In all fairness, whatever sources were available would’ve been highly biased. That’s why Richard III was written the way it was.

@@knightofarkronia8652 No it was written that way to please the Tudor family over the Plantagenets.

With a nod to Mark Twain.

Baldrick, that's the absolute worst plan since Napoleon Bonaparte decided to take his soldiers on winter holiday in Siberia. I've got a better idea: Let's make a documentary!

Hahaha, I thought he looked familiar.

Aha,what a cunning plan

IKR? 😂. That bit was great! I seriously watched it three times🤣

Lol , hes magnificent

Aye, but then again, Connolly is a half baked Paddy.

@@KeithWilliamMacHendry ?????????????

He might be a Pictish/Scottish/Viking Gallowglass Warrior these were the Special Forces from Scotland that travelled the world as guns for hire or if you like Knights Templars without out the God complex 👍

Sean Doherty Níl, you mean Gaelic (Gàidhlig). I reckon a typo. Little difference between Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic up to the 19th century.

@@dam_nic113 Maybe he mixed them up with the Pre-Dark Age Franks, The Gauls, though you would think he would realize Tower MacMaolain was making a joke about the tinney audio quality

In medivel scotland, they also didn't have color few^^ We should expect black&white tin-sound

@@NjK601 🤣😂🤣😂

LOL!

msflyingfox I did EXACTLY the same! What a total hunk. They don’t make them like that down here in the south

Lol

Aye, bet you double-clicked... even.

He looks like a giant ginger Billy Connolly.

Ahh that dude is a bit into it LOL

One must remember, Shakespeare was a author of plays and wrote those plays for the specific purpose of those who paid for his work.

Macbeth wasn't for a Tudor court - by then it was a Stuart Court...

@@allanthomson4488The Tudors would been just as anti Macbeth. Tannestry, elective monarchy, Highland culture, celtic. And of course family. Malcolm III and his wife Margaret of Wessex via their daughter Matilda (wife of Henry I, mother of Empress Matilda) were the ancestors of the Plantagenets and Tudors and their royal link to Alfred the Great. Plus it was seemingly very likely that James would succeed Elizabeth, so even if the Play had been composed earlier the impetus would be the same.

its a bypass for youtubes growing capitalist ideas.

Nope. The problem is with them.

It's the witches, distorting the sound.

Liar. That isnt possible.

@@josephswolin7450 it's very possible in the UK

Macnutz420 without those plays tho, all that history would probably have been lost

Artistic license

LOL! It seems it's part of a long tradition.

@@kezkezooie8595 well in all honesty Shakespeare is more concerned with writing a good story than following history to a key. I mean if all films followed history completely with all its politics and complications they would be kind of boring.

@@elgeneral5279 Oh, yeah, I know and I agree with you. It was just a bit of a joke. You know the old saying "Never let the truth ruin a good story" :) This was very interesting though. I love Tony Robinson's doco's, with, or without, turnips.

Yes!

Me too!

ahaaa not many left.. Just started watching Tracks of Britain,

My t-ball coach gus is better than Tony

@@loganstroganoff1284 what is that in English?

Same! Lol

I tend to disdain Game of Thrones but at least it got some people into real history. But always remember, please, history came first. GOT is facile but pretty

The real King in the North by Max Adam's about Saint /King Oswald, who Tolkein based Aragorn on

LOL! It would be good if he'd snuck that in somehow.

One of my favourites by Tranter!

Mr Tranter never wrote a bad book...

It echos.

Annoyingly their sound is always off. I'd suggest that it's because they don't want the bots to catch them, but their info says the content they post is all licensed so...dunno.

Yeah I always want to contact them about fixing all their tinny videos haha. The content is always so quality but the audio is usually meh.

So is life....

It's not so bad you can't watch it though.

.75 speed

Shakespeare's way of saying that nihilism is how the mad see life.

@@grahambates7162 i'm not sure. the clowns and madmen often speak true but in puzzles like the witches

@@Elleoaqua True, and what is genius about this is that it is really Shakespeare writing it, knowing full well that those within his tragedy would not be able to appreciate it from his (God's)/the audience's perspective. It's funny how nihilists like to use this quote in a too literal way to justify their outlook.

Granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, King Cnut (or Canute) sent Ironside's sons to Sweden, from whence to Kief and then they ended up in Hungary. Margaret was born in Hungary about 1045. Her brother Edgar the Ætheling and sister Cristina were also born in Hungary around this time.

Sorry, are you saying MacBeth wasn't MacBeth? Don't understand.

Yes, at least it's not muffled, it's just a bit tinny with a slight echo at times. I got used to it fairly quickly.

Cant get used to it..Im gone

Kind of annoying

Thanks for these details. "...might just have been given a hatch for the drains." Gotta love it! Took Edward I a while to figure it out!

Sounds logical

Maybe but why demand the hatch back later if it was fake...

Wow that sounds interesting. “Stone of Destiny”.

@@canbrit4621 If Edward couldn't find the real stone, wouldn't he make the best of the situation?

I love all of the Blackadders. I watched the first series when it first aired and it was very different and original for its time, especially that first season. The show changed the format and comedy style to a more traditional one in the later seasons but it didn't lose it's quality; I still loved them all.

It was great to hear an English narrator throw some shade on ole Johnson. He usually only gets high praise from the English. lol

He also forgot "sausage". Oh, and "aardvark".

He wasn't happy with the definition of dog- not a cat.

I enjoyed the play versus history aspect as well

He didn't get them "wrong"! He was writing timeless stories that told of the human condition. He wasn't writing documentaries!

Does anyone else feel like Tolkien might have been influenced by this tale?

Jayson...That's what I thought. It became a divided Kingdom, too bad for that. My family heritage is from the Highlands. The Gaelic language and culture are taught , sung, performed and live on in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Wallace was a nobleman himself and would of had some land. Though in the movie he appears to live in a hut made of dung.

Anglicised? Strange that England was ruled by the Normans at the time and that many of these 'anglicised' Scots have French names....

@@cambs0181 Braveheart? A tissue of lies - Shakespeare could have started with it and made another great fiction!

@Celto Loco Kind of reckless, aren't you?

Rebecca English-Tenji Ahhh! Hot potato, orchestra stalls. Pluck will make amends. For the record yes, this documentary conjures up mental images of THAT Blackadder The Third episode. 😉

that...and Discworld's Wyrd Sisters...

Being a mere butler you are not aware of the great theater tradition that one must NEVER speak the name of the Scottish play!

Thanasis Earnest Lampropoulos -What are we forgetting, Your Highness? -Now look, if I stand any wider than this, I have a serious chance in disappointing my future queen. -No, your highness, the roar! -The roar? -Keanrick, from your Hamlet -WOOOAH To be or not to be What a legendary episode

Me. I'll just refer it as the Scottish play.

Mmmmm . . . two words really emphasize her determination: "We FAIL?" Outrage, determination, incredulity . . . they say it all.

When he wasn't burning people alive and marrying their widow. Still, I suppose that is nothing much for then and he only did it once. A mere misdemeanour. Lol

The reason actors considered saying "Macbeth" was bad luck, ESPECIALLY in a theater, was that accidents seem to have occurred whenever the play was performed. Actors tended to be superstitious, and laid the blame on the play itself. The play was, in spite of this, very popular with the groundlings, so rather than not performing a true moneymaker, actors just changed the name to "The Scottish Play" among themselves

I’d like to see mr and mrs macB on the Newlyweds

@@mikegrossberg8624 I was told by an actor that to quote from "The Scottish Play" was very bad luck, and if you spoke any line from it outside of actual rehearsal or performance, you had to leave the room, and turn round three times before re-entering. That was supposed to break the curse or something.

I often work in theatres and get around the superstition by calling it MacDeath. Actually I almost always call it that anyway. Lol.

This is the hottest take in the comments! ☝️

Shakespeare did blacken Macbeth. James VI of Scotland who would become James I of England and Scotland was king when Macbeth was written, traced his ancestry back to kings Duncan and Malcolm. By praising them in his play Shakespeare by extension praised James, and by letting the first thing Malcolm does being to reform Scotland to more resemble England (there's a line along the lines of noble Thanes, henceforth be Earls) he moves back the idea of uniting the crowns of Scotland and England into one centuries before it actually happened, presenting the end of Scotlands independence as the natural course of history. He turns Macbeth into a symbol of the old scottish independence and by villifying him he villifies the independent Scotland he stood for. So basically: Shakespeare wrote a progaganda piece, and it stands to reason he did so in order to curry favour with the relatively newly crowned king. Richard III got blackened for similar reasons; when Shakespeare wrote that piece England was governed by Elisabeth I; whose line ascended to the throne by deposing the last Plantagenet king Richard III. Of course he's presented as a villain and the then current queen's grandfather as the slayer of that villain and protector of all that's good and moral. Does that political angle reduce the artistic value of those plays? No it doesn't and since the political landscape is no longer the same it was in Shakespeare's days there's not much relevance to the propaganda angle any more. But we shouldn't pretend it's not there.

@Robert Armitage I disagree. Many people have “learned” their history from Shakespeare for centuries and believe his version as much as they believe the black legend. Of course this latter wasn’t created by him but it’s in the same vein, blackening one’s opponents/enemies to make oneself look better and in the right, whilst hiding the harm one has done. It’s an old English tradition I find deplorable. Those of us who, as you say, are spurned on to find the truth, are the exception rather than the rule. It’s unfortunate that “History is written by the victors” seems to be an English saying, wrongly attributed to Winston Churchill but in English nonetheless. I don’t find it in other languages and must say, many non-English historians are apologetic about the wrongs their own ancestors have done, without distorting the actions of their opponents/enemies. I wish this taking of responsibility were universal, but it isn’t.

It’s like the Hollywood cartoon versions of Pocahontas or Anastasia. While great stories, and Macbeth intriguing and apparently written to appeal to and promote King James to the people, as Richard III was to Queen Elizabeth, why use and distort authentic personages from history? Why not do as Tolkien, and create real fiction even if based on actual people? In the first case of the cartoons, it’s lazy story-telling. In the case of Shakespeare, it is genuine propaganda intended to indoctrinate the masses.

@@gf3011 I wouldn't go so far as to say Macbeth and Richard III were propaganda intended to indoctrinate the masses. The idea that Shakespeare distorted authentic personages is based on the assumption that he knew better. We shouldn't assume all the information that's available to us was available to Shakespeare, too. Even more important: Shakespeare was a product of his time. And for artists looking for wealthy patron's upabashedly shmoozing up them or their ancestors and just as unabashedly demonizing their (ancestor's) opponents was just par for the course. We should also keep in mind that times Shakepeare lived in didn't have a particularly nuanced view on Richard III. Casting Richard III as a villain back then was like casting Saddam Hussein as a villain is today. Propaganda against Richard III started when he was still alive. That's how Henry VII justified his attempt to overthrow him. Shakespeare didn't invent anti-Richard propaganda, he just extended its shelf-life and added embellishments. He didn't write Richard III to indoctrinate the masses; he wrote Richard III to appeal to masses that had already been indoctrinated - if the notion of "indoctrinated masses" can even be applied to the era. And with Macbeth the idea that the piece was written to indoctrinate the masses is downright preposterous. The praising of king James is only detectable by people who know James was direct descendent of king Duncan. But from the perspective of the masses king Duncan - a long dead king from what during his reign was a foreign country - was such an obscure figure he might as well have been fictional. A blacksmith or weaver looking to enjoy themselves in a theatre probably wouldn't have connected that king Duncan to the guy on the throne.

Beautiful landscapes...

That is the true meaning of political correctness, in case anyone wonders.

Edward Cumpstey they'll have to when it gets flagged!

Oh God what ??

True, since the narrator is the actor who played Baldrick.

*Aaahhh!!! Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends!*

LMAO, but USA is WORSE

Oooorrr not......never mind. The voice over is good.