Why should you read 'Macbeth'? - Brendan Pelsue

There’s a play so powerful that an old superstition says its name should never be uttered in a theater. A play that begins with witchcraft and ends with a bloody, severed head. A play filled with riddles, prophecies, nightmare visions, and lots of brutal murder. But is it really all that good? Brendan Pelsue explains why you should read (or revisit) "Macbeth."

Lesson by Brendan Pelsue, directed by Silvia Prietov.

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[omaralmubayd]

I would love to see the whole play in this style of drawing ...that would be divine.

[nivob]

"what is done is done" years later adaptation: "IT IS WHAT IT

[kentondickerson]

The great mistake that many schools make is making students read these plays before they see them on stage or in a movie.

[vincent-of-the-bog]

Animation's bloody gorgeous. And the Tragedy of Macbeth is bloody, gorgeous.

[Redpuff]

You know what else is a tragedy ? My grade after the Macbeth essay.

[mahmoodabdulrazzaq]

This is my favorite animation and voice-over pair for any TED Ed video so far. Absolutely surreal.

[unclebayek]

3:29 "Shakespeare provides viewers with some of the most memorable passages in English literature: "

*_WHAT, YOU EGG!_*

[poojasbehaviour]

honestly, everyone's saying "what, you egg" but my favourite quote is actually the witches calling some lady a "rump-fed ronyon", it's just 👌

[rea]

The more I read the old classics, the more I am realizing we might have progressed in so many areas, but the way we think and handle our emotions and instincts has stayed pretty much the same. We have similar problems as people living centuries before us and are asking ourselves the same existential questions that exist since a loooong time ago.
Power changes people in different ways and if the person doesn't have a clear vision of what they want to achieve, it is easy to miss the right turn and just keep going deeper and deeper into darkness. :)

[idib]

The animation in here is next level. So well made, and probably not cheap to produce though. Keep up the good work guys.

[supercanadian]

Macbeth is what stopped me from overthrowing the government

[dantelu]

We need an audiobook voicing the whole play with this magical sound 2:53
Can't stop re-listening to him...

[SRoy-rktj]

My favorite quote from the play

“What, you Egg”!
[Stabs Him]

[Merrypaws]

One of TED-Ed's finest videos to date. Gorgeous animation, riveting voice over and excellent pacing, making for not only educational, but truly dramatic telling, which makes learning a captivating experience.

[sm]

Lady Macbeth
“Who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?”
“Will these hands never been clean?”

Outstanding story!

[zainab]

My God - this was insanely beautiful. The voice, the content, the animations. Thanks so much for this! I wish I could give the video a million thumbs up.

[ruchipeiris]

Sees this video
Thumbnail: why should you read Macbeth?
ME: cuz it's in my syllabus !

[Vulkrein]

"What? You Egg!"
(Stabs him)
-Macbeth

[juniormachado]

Shakespeare leaves a class looking like the end of Macbeth

[SydTom]

Ted-Ed: Why you should read Macbeth
Year 9 English: Allow me to introduce myself