Date: 2008
Posted by: Christopher Merrill
Credits: Filmed by Christopher Merrill
Cast: Christopher Merrill (Bishop of Carlisle)
Duration: 1.11
Intense rendition in an unflinching close-up of the Bishop of Carlisle’s speech, “Worst in this royal presence may I speak, Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth …” from Richard II, Act 4 Scene 1. The performer is American Christopher Merrill, who has published several such recitations. The intimacy – or absence of restraint – that YouTube once again encourages the creation of a closeness between performer and screen unlike any other form of screen Shakespeare (but not perhaps a closeness between performer and audience?).
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