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Why are they laughing?

Sadly nothing of this standard has been performed at the Globe for years now.

He has the ability, more than pretty much all other shakespearean actors, to phrase, and deliver the lines in the most natural way, which seems to connect with me at least, more than many other actors

This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear’d by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry, As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry Of the world’s ransom, blessed Mary’s Son, This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it, Like to a tenement or pelting farm: England, bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame, With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life, How happy then were my ensuing death! William Shakespeare, Richard II

Oh, that was embarrassingly unbearable. Everything has to be reinterpreted to suit gormless sensibilities.

Rylance looks like a sweet black skinned cherub of the Papuan variety, his range is that of a Sexual tyrannosaurus rex.

Joyful. Just what I needed. If only Gryphon could record a soundtrack album…

By some of the comments l guess Shakespeare wasn't allowed to have a sense of humor.

To those who think this performance is lacking in anyway are just lost on the world of cinema, thos is how it was written to be performed live to a limited audience, no camera, no lights, no edits just raw words written by a man for the time in which he lived.

Simply great, l would like to think that this is how Shakespear meant it to be presented.

Is this the guy from Dunkirk ?

2:39 Him stammering to show how he's starting to be overwhelmed with his emotions right before he breaks down and starts to cry, 👨‍🍳 💋

Its the moment where Richard realizes he's not all that.

He's falling the fuck apart, and chooses comedy to keep it together. I get it, man, I do exactly this. Come, sit: let's tell sad stories of the death of kings. <3

I really rather like this, it’s a great juxtaposition to Tennant scooting across the stage tearing out his hair (a brilliantly visceral and uncomfortable scene) this is so… sad. It’s funny, but tragic and quiet and hits something very true about the monologue and the character.

Wonderful Richard! I would love to have seen this. The poet wears authority and becomes a king . . .

Now go watch Ben Whishaw

you can feel the tragedy in it. the humanity and the genuine mortal fear. excellent rendition.

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Where may I purchase this in complete

oh my god, he was actually able to draw laughs from that line.. so interesting compared to more morose deliveries.

This scene is just short of brilliance. I can see what Rylance was trying to do but I just wish he didn’t deliver it in such a robotic, memorised way…it came off unnatural

A man playing The Duchess of York? I thought we'd come a long way in the theatre, sadly not.

For what can we bequeath but our bodies our lands our souls our very best.... Interesting the Declaration of Independence ends with precisely this pledge

I have to say, the humorous take Mark Rylance went for in this role caught me completely off guard. David Tennant, in an equally fantastic performance, screams and pulls his hair out and it’s uncomfortable but mesmerising. Ben Whishaw in the 2012 TV adaption is melancholy and quiet, but captivating as an effeminate man who is simply in over his head. Humour is a new one on me and as of writing I haven’t seen the rest of this production, but it puts a unique spin on this scene. Shakespeare is what you make of it. He only wrote the words after all.

Whoever wrote these plays, is up there saying. "At last, there is an actor worthy of these words." Bravo, Bravo. I laugh and cry and thank the heavens for living long enough to see and hear Mark Rylance.

I dunno. I find his acting silly.

I love this joyous little dance

Let's hear it for the musicians! 🔥🔥🔥

I was shocked at the laughs at first, but in the end, I had to agree it's a fresh interpretation. Strangely enough, the chap interpreting Richard II looks and sounds like Kenneth Connor in the Carry Ons: someone hiding profound sadness under a mask of amusing clumsiness.

Mark Rylance is the worst actor ever. He is the greatest charlatan that has ever graced the stage. He is a actor of our time. He is revered because he is of our time . The greatest actor of our time. Weak in voice, weak in form, weak in conviction. weak in grace. Yes he is the most respecale actor of our time. Pleasant. Mildly deceptive , with a pleasant joke at the end. Thats life in the 21st century. Read Shakes-sper again yea cunts!

Splendid!

Ayo is Macbeth good???

I love his calculated halting delivery; every little hesitancy means something, it's like a emotional verse punctuation he's invented for himself and allows him to slip into little sides of nervous humor and then come thundering back.

I love Marks tremolo and halting delivery because every halt sends another charge of meaning into the word halted on and the next word. Its particularly good with Richard because he is as weak a king as he is powerful in poetry, and in the end his rhetoric is is his only weapon.

Thought we had a knock knock joke coming at 2:26

Exceptional

Everyone in the comments: WOW soooo awesome!!!👏 me: why did my teachers make me watch this 🤦‍♀️...

Fun fact: The two brothers on that stage: John of Gaunt and Edmund of York are the patriarchs of the Houses of Lancaster and York respectively (since John of Gaunt's title was the Duke of Lancaster). 50 years later their descendants would fight the Wars of the Roses.

One of the most underrated monologues, from one of the most underrated plays.

Mark Rylance baffles me.. He has an utterly unique break down for the text.. He yields completely to the Shakespearean text, yet he makes it entirely his own and makes it sound entirely extemporaneous.. The only thing about which I am a bit ambivalent in his take on the major Shakespearean roles, is that they are so rudimentary that they might be a bit similar.. I mean they are not as different from each other as how Laurence Olivier's Lear and Othello are different from each other, which is absolutely two different people.. But.. the man is ,notwithstanding, sufficient as Shylock says.. He is not trying to make them externally different, he is trying something else, something vital, and stunningly succeeding in doing so

I wish somehow I can watch the whole play

Ryelace , Ry-No-Chance more like !

Rylance , Ry-is-pants more like !

Why can't one see this whole performance anywhere? Or buy the blu ray or something?

Of course he goes up at the beginning. Starts recovering while dropping lines. Some cheap laughs, followed by brilliant moments.

I have decided I shall go there in the spring, FFS it's only a couple of hours away by bus

I'm glad he gets laughs but this is pretty bad.

Оно конечно толерантность. ...Но блять афроангличанин среди приближенных короля.// ...Шекспир в гробу икает.

I saw this at the Globe and I have to say I didn't enjoy Mark Rylance's performance at all, especially in this scene., where he throws away one of the most moving speeches Shakespeare wrote to get a few easy laughs from the audience. Having watched the re-runs of Blackadder 2 lately, I've realised what was nagging at me all the time I was watching this. It's Richard played as Lord Percy...