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Anonymous Sat Oct 12 01:18:35 2019 No.13977835 [Reply] [Original]

Are Shakespeare's plays supposed to be read or watched? Where should I start?

For writing inspiration

Anonymous Sat Oct 12 01:34:25 2019 No.13977889

>>13977835
>Are Shakespeare's plays supposed to be read or watched?
Well he wrote them to be watched, but they were published to be read, hence the folio's message "To the great Variety of Readers":
>Reade him, therefore; and againe, and againe.

>Where should I start?
>For writing inspiration
Well you could read him in "chronological" order, to see how his writing evolved. Just keep in mind that nobody knows exactly what the chronological order is, but there's enough consensus on whether individual plays are early/middle/late.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 01:55:25 2019 No.13977947 >>13977835 You could use the Librivox app and follow along in your text as the cast reads the play. That helped me get into a few of them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 02:22:40 2019 No.13978008 >>13977835 Imagine in 500 years if people read the script for Lawrence of Arabia instead of watching it. That is what happens when you read Shakespeare instead of watching it. He wrote the texts for actors only, not to be read by the general public.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 05:21:26 2019 No.13978473 >>13977835 >Is a play meant to be watched?

Anonymous Sat Oct 12 10:03:09 2019 No.13979202

>>13977835
Read Shakespeare, don't watch him. His plays are shit to watch. The iambic rhythm makes it way too easy to zone out and miss something important. There's nothing visually appealing about his stuff, and his poetry is so dense that you want an opportunity to slow down and take a soliloquy apart in your head.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 10:19:55 2019 No.13979264 >>13977835 Watch to enjoy Read to understand on a more intimate level

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 13:17:01 2019 No.13980080 Not trolling, how is Shakespeare litearture if he wrote plays?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 13:21:32 2019 No.13980109 File: 45 KB, 640x360, vietnaom.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13979264 I do both watch a play read the play, silently some lines or passages I read aloud watch a different version of the play

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 14:33:58 2019 No.13980453 >>13978008 Not the same

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 12 15:02:49 2019 No.13980596 >>13980080 Drama is a genre of literature you utter fucking brainlet

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