. >> where i was born, dun keld and burnham share a strain station so burnham wood is right by dunkeld and my father's family worked on an estate for generations. >> rose: we do a thing here because wherever we talk about shakespeare we ask a question for a series that i -- an ongoing series that i do. it's simply this: why shakespeare? >> i think he has things to say about the human condition that are so incredible and so relevant and so kind of penetrating and curious i just -- every time i do him i'm just amazed about the depth and the -- the brilliance of him. >> is this a bag cher i see before me? s-gsz the handle toward my hand. come, let me clutch thee. i have thee not and yet i see thee still. are thou not fatal vision sensible to feeling as to sight? >> rose: here's what you said. "when macbeth starts i have three hours to inhabit this role. this man who's saying these amazing things, it's not just a great story, it's mine-expanding. just getting your head around this imagery and this language, it's like a drug. there is nothing to match it. >> yes, it's been like that most of