/lit/ - Literature

>>7092253
Yes, intuition would tell you you need to see the play to get the "proper experience," but this is a falsehood. In fact plays are best experienced on the page, the place where they were first created. This was always true, but the development of film has helped to ensure that plays are studied and kept alive as texts, not performances.

Raised on movies, I can't enjoy a play. I've seen great productions at great theaters and I was miserable. Who can tolerate being stuck watching an entire drama from the same angle. Imagine a movie that never cuts in from its establishing long shot. You'd say move the fucking camera. Film revealed the fundamental flaw in the idea of a play as a live performance. Were film available in his time, Shakespeare would have staged exactly zero plays. He would have written and possibly directed movies.