. >> otherwise it becomes a musty, dusty, book on the shelf, a cultural artifact, something to be referred, department constant from, something we're told is good for us, and, instead, to discuss, talk, to debate, to dismiss, to trash, to, you know, passionately evoke words, charters and lines whatever. >> rose: "why shake peer" forth. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following... captioning sponsored by ro communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: samuel tailor coldridgt wrote of all of shakespeare's plays mcbeth is the most rapid, hamlet is the slowest in movement. tonight as part of our charlie rose series "why shakespeare" we examine two masterpieces, mcbeth and king leer. first we talked to liev schreiber who played mcbeth in shakespeare in the park in 2006. then rim jim who has an upcoming back called king leer, shakespeare. we conclude our conversation about shakespeare with kenneth branagh, and kenneth branagh has directed and started in numerous shakespeare films including hamlet and henry v. >> under my battlement. come. tendo