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Originally Posted by Catlady
In HS, we learned Shakespeare by listening to records and following along with the text. Then we'd discuss. In college a bunch of us would get together in the dorm, assign parts, and read aloud when we were assigned Shakespeare.
But plays are different anyway--they were never designed to be read silently as words on a page.
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That's the difference, in HS we studied Shakespeare by reading from the text and discussing. In college, we studied by reading and discussing (had a great college teacher who would compare the rhythm of Shakespeare with the rhythm of the blues). We focused a lot on the back story that the audience of the times was familiar with, but the modern audience is not and the history of the times. Plays were a very different thing back then, a lot closer to vaudeville than to Broadway.