Midsummer Nights Dream
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As with every play we read this quarter, we started A Midsummer
Night s Dream with only a text. Reading the script is the foundation of
Shakespeare, and the least evolved of the ways that one can experience
it. There is no one to interpret the words, no body movement o!r voice
inflection to ind ....
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.... of the
playwright. An example of this can be seen in the different Romeo and
Juliets: Luhrman clearly had a more modern vision after reading the
script than did Zeffirelli did only 18 years before. The live
performance at the CalPoly theatre also carried !with it a very
different feel less intense, more child-like and sweet with nearly the
same words. Reading also affects our experience in that without the
text, we would most likely not be able to enjoy Shakespeare at all;
having ....
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