Daniel Mays as Macbeth: 'Is this a dagger which I see before me?' | Shakespeare solos

Daniel Mays speaks Macbeth’s lines from act II, scene 1.
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While Macbeth waits for his wife to ring the bell that will signal the time for him to murder Duncan, he sees a weapon in a hallucination

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays.

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