The Bard of Avon

sun-star · 11-06-2002, 03:51 PM

I think you do have to see the play to appreciate it as it was meant to be watched (especially at the Globe Theatre

), but you understand it in a different way if you have time to read and think about it. Shakespeare puts so much into a short line - sometimes you just have to stop, admire and consider what he's saying. Perhaps the first experience of a play should be as a piece of drama in a theatre, and then it can be read more closely. Of course, reading it, you can lose sight of the dramatic aspect and the plot to concentrate on language and ideas. They're all important, when they're combined.

11-06-2002, 03:51 PM	#11
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	I think you do have to see the play to appreciate it as it was meant to be watched (especially at the Globe Theatre ), but you understand it in a different way if you have time to read and think about it. Shakespeare puts so much into a short line - sometimes you just have to stop, admire and consider what he's saying. Perhaps the first experience of a play should be as a piece of drama in a theatre, and then it can be read more closely. Of course, reading it, you can lose sight of the dramatic aspect and the plot to concentrate on language and ideas. They're all important, when they're combined. __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

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