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20929317 No.20929317 [Reply] [Original]

i'm too stupid to understand shakespeare without watching a film adaptation first

>> No.20929329

what is there to understand? don't tell me you fell for that harold bloom 'invention of the human' bullshit
shakespeare is all about the language anon, all about the language

>> No.20929335

>>20929317
>watching
anon it's okay to watch a play

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>>20929317
just read it and pretend there's a movie in your head

>> No.20929365

Reading Shakespeare or watching a play is easier than watching a film adaptation because there's no whispering.

>> No.20929372

>>20929365
>I'm hard of hearing ... WHAT did you say?!

>> No.20929386

>>20929317
Mel Gibson does a fantastic job with Hamlet. I've never seen a better delivery of the "words, words, words" line.

>> No.20929391

i'm too stupid to understand the film adaptations

>> No.20929436

>>20929317
Stupid frogposter.

>> No.20929442

There are times where I only really get a sense of the importance or emotion of a line when I see it performed

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>>20929436
not all frogposters are stupid

>> No.20931265

>>20929317
shakespeare fucking sucks lmao, just stop and do something better with your time

>> No.20931280

>>20929317
People who “read” Shakespeare are retarded. PLAYS ARE MEANT TO BE PERFORMED, NOT READ. If you “read” a play, you missed the point; you were supposed to see it live.

>> No.20931444

>>20929343
this

its all about mental images

>> No.20931464

>>20931280
Not paying theaterfags any cent.

>> No.20931494

Shakespeare is LITERALLY intended to be watched as a production. Obviously things are going to fly over your head if you're just reading transliterated folios that often are missing liner notes and do not capture the nuance of a line's delivery or a character's personality.
Try reading a really good modern screenplay's script and see how much goes under-developed without the addition of all the extra dimensions of acting and staging.