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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If Shakespeare had written novels, reading them would be the correct way to appreciate them. But he wrote plays. If you want to appreciate them, you should go and watch them performed.
I think this is where Tolstoy made his big mistake in trying to appreciate Shakespeare.
Now the sonnets are meant to be read - but one at a time, not in great blocks.
Paul
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So long as men can breathe, and eyes can see
So long lives this, and gives life to thee.
Man his sonnets rock. I agree on seeing the plays, not reading them.