Zawe Ashton as Jacques in As You Like It: ‘All the world’s a stage’ | Shakespeare Solos
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2016
- To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Zawe Ashton speaks Jacques’s lines on the seven ages of man from Act II, Scene 7 of As You Like It.
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A truly chilling reading. You suddenly realise that we can only live our lives in ignorance of their ignominious end. To see the whole span of life at once makes you a stranger to everyone. I was shaken by this video. What a phenomenal performer!
I dont normally understand Shakespeare, but I understood everything in that monologue.
Funny how times change but at the same time don't
THIS is rock and roll!
This was extraordinary, the magic of the glistening eyes at the end. (Though I wondered why Zawe did not have the studio setting of the other monologues, kept worrying a kid was going to throw a ball in her direction..)
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
you must of been bored
@@ribena663 HAVE!!!
@@tc9634 Thank you.
I've never heard this performed better. Love this version so much.
I like the voice and the interpretation.
A very dark take on this speech! Very well done.
Oh dear, truly magical.Body language speaks volumes.
Wow, breathtaking performance. I loved the eye contact at the very end. So haunting and deep. Love it
I could listen to her talk all day
now i know why she and Tom Hiddleston, a Shakespeare guy, are together
Damm how can someone be so beautiful
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Beautifully done!
VOD IS GOD
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Oh dear, I am in love. With such raw emotion and vulnerability.
Amazing! Love the hopeless cynical colour about it.
awesome voice and expression....touched me deep
Revisited this...and it's sounds better than my previous listening! Brilliant!
Amazing. This performance is really something. Very expressive actrice.
Wonderful, artistic deeply touched.
Magnificent..chilling!
Captivating.... "oblivion..."
wonderful choice of location for this, and sound editing.
also, the sophistication of "sans teeth, sans eyes...etc" is so incredible. I'm used to conceiving of this as a pretty grim condemnation, but Zawe Ashton makes it a curious, reserved realization
She is awesome! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Brilliant. Zawe....
Mrs. Loki!
Today I learned this character's name is usually pronounced "Jay-kweez"
This is very good. Who did the video production?
zawe ashton should be more popular
imm here cos of the crona virus and home work
Same bro
Wow
What will it be like, to be sans everything? Nothing to think with, nothing to love or link with. The anaesthetic from which none come round.
I seriously wish the background noise didn't drown her out so much.
BEAUTIFULLY spoken.
But the background noise was unfortunate.
No, it helps. I think the soliloquy is about the banality and predictability of individual lives. Banal human noises add to the point, I reckon
They might add to the point, but her voice is quiet, and there are pauses. For someone with imperfect hearing, or who has difficulty being selective in their hearing, the background noises are to loud.
Her voice forms a quite drone, which could itself be background noise, while the noises themselves are many and varied - birds tweeting, children calling out, a car accelerating etc etc. Despite the fact that what she SAYS is interesting, the drone of her voice is less exciting than the noise around it.
Not a fan of the background noise. I wanted to hear what she was saying.
But I think it works well to emphasise the normality, the everyday-ness, of Shakespeare's point. Life moves on.
@@TheMarvymart What works best is to hear what's being said. Also the delivery is what you would except from a soliloquy in a tragedy. As you like it is a comedy.
What a Goddess
U should be in game of thrones!!!
saddens
Astonishing
I have Serbian, Polish and Bulgarian heritage and I always thought this was the best Edward De Vere (the true Shakespeare) speech ever translated into Serbian. In Serbian, it can literally be read as follows.
Ceo svet je pozornica,
A svi muškarci i žene su samo igrači;
Oni imaju svoje izlaze i svoje ulaze;
I jedan čovek u svoje vreme igra mnoge uloge,
Njegova dela su sedam godina. U početku beba,
Mjukanje i povraćanje u naručju medicinske sestre;
A onda cvileći školarac, sa svojom torbom
I blistavo jutarnje lice, pužeće kao puž
Nevoljno u školu. A onda ljubavnik,
Uzdišući kao peć, sa jadnom baladom
Napravljeno do obrva njegove ljubavnice. Zatim vojnik,
Pun čudnih zakletvi, i bradat kao pard,
Ljubomorni na čast, iznenadni i brzi u svađi,
Traženje reputacije balona
Čak i u ustima topa. A onda pravda,
U lepom okruglom stomaku sa dobrim kopunom,
Sa oštrim očima i bradom formalnog kroja,
Pun mudrih testera i savremenih primeraka;
I tako on igra svoju ulogu. Šesto doba se smenjuje
U mršave pantalone u papučama,
Sa naočarima na nosu i torbicom sa strane;
Njegovo mladalačko crevo, dobro spaseno, svet previše širok
Za njegov skupljeni krak; i njegov veliki muški glas,
Okrenuvši se ponovo ka detinjastim visokim tonima, cevi
I zviždi u njegovom zvuku. Poslednja scena od svega,
Time se završava ova čudna istorija bogata događajima,
Drugo je detinjstvo i puki zaborav;
Bez zuba, bez očiju, bez ukusa, bez svega.
sans from undertale
She looks like Missande from Game of Thrones!
Missandei is beautiful! Zawe is not...
Monotonous and without feeling
“Like snail” not like a snail
“Like furnace” not like a furnace
“Pipes and whistles” not pipes whistles
Other than that, took my breath away...
Too much background music can't hear
Insipid interpretation.
I agree.
If you're pretending to feel something that isn't there in won't be belivable... I never liked her acting.
hardly to understand that mumbling
Seriously annoyed with UTUBE right now, they only let me click Like once.
Weird voice.
She tries too hard! Sorry, but becomes artificial.
Gross
Meh...
No not chillin'. Hokum !!
Why is Shakespeare not LOUD anymore or punctillious? This is flaccid guff.
This actress can't...
As I don't like it !