Is it correct that you should watch Shakespeare plays rather than read them, because that's what they're meant for?
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Is it correct that you should watch Shakespeare plays rather than read them, because that's what they're meant for?
You should do both obviously
Both are acceptable, although most modern readers don't have the skillset to read them
Most performances, even the well-acclaimed ones, make me cringe for some reason. I prefer to read them. It's poetry that can be performed.
Shakespeare published them in folios and they were read in his own lifetime because obviously you couldn’t see every single one, they weren’t all being performed at once for years on end.
Anyway performance is great if it’s a great performance, definitely. Reading lets you catch a lot more due to annotations. Lame performances though are not worth watching and turn his masterpieces into mediocrity
I could never get into the whole preamble. All the characters are introduced beforehand and I'm just kinda going: "spoiler alert" in my head.
Do I skip the character introductions?
I just read a minor play and took detailed notes and sent them to my mommy! Mommy thanked me because she listened to it as an audio-book months back and I've actually refreshed her memory with useful spaced repetition, and I've also given my own interpretation on things. I am going to see the play with my mommy in the next few days, and I will have a clear understanding of what is happening both in broad strokes and in some detail! Seeing the play performed will of course massively enhance my understanding and appreciation of the work!
Does your mommy also buy you chicken tendies when you go see the play? You must have a lot of good boy points.
My mom takes me to plays too. One time we went to a Shakespear festival in oregon and we're going to see Shakespear in the park sometime this summer. Definitely a fun activity to do with mom.
My favorite Shakespearean theater is the Mind's Eye
The play is always 'better' in my mind but a live performance always makes me notice something that I hadn't recognized in the text before.
I've seen probably a dozen different versions of Hamlet and read it myself as many times and each time I see it performed the actor emphasizes some certain line or adds some little gesture that completely changes the context of a certain scene...but the ghost and the fights and the actual substance of the play is always performed 'better' in my mind because it fits exactly how I want it to be if that makes sense.
Yes dumbass. Do you sit and read movie scripts?
I bought the entire collection of plays by the BBC for $5, they're a good watch. I like to read along.
Reading plays can be kind of fun. I just finished Caligula by Camus and it was really good. I've noticed when I read plays I imagine actors acting out the play on a stage instead of the actual characters
You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't watch at least a movie adaption and preferably a stage adaption. That said if you have an imagination it's not like reading the plays is a strenuous exercise.
I prefer to read the play before watching the performance, because I'm a bit of a listening-comprehensionlet and might have difficulty following what's happening otherwise
I direct and act at home with my tulpa troupe of actors while I'm reading plays.
I listened to the Arkangel audio productions while reading along the first time I read through his works on my own.
The cops aren't going to break down your door because you read shakespere instead of gonjg to see a play.