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I've never been fond of reading Shakespeare, and can testify to the fact that it was a huge-turn off for most of my classmates in high school. Most didn't read for pleasure, and "Romeo and Juliet" was pure torture for them. No way were they going to touch anything else "Classic" after that. I'm a reader, and even then I rolled my eyes and wished it was all done and over with. Scripts are not novels.
Scripts are dry, dull things without any life until the actors and directors get a hold of it. It's meant to be seen and heard, and the script created only for the actors. Too much is missing when the actors are left out.
I'm all for telling the story to the students, and seeing the play or the movie, then going to the text. But reading the plays cold? I've never seen the point in that.
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