/lit/ - Literature

>people reacting to the sounds of farts rather than the smell

I hate that shit so much. Literally the most bugman crap conceivable.

>>15445734
Just because you cant understand it when it's removed from the way you understood it doesn't mean it's bad, it just means you're a pseudo-intellectual for not comprehending the fact that theatrical works have an inherent right to be performed in a new creative way, a way that is quintessential to the craft and the reason we remember these works in the first place. Nobody would see theatre if a character were portrayed the exact same every time, to that event nobody would give a shit about shakespeare if this were the truth, so since interpretation of character is allowed to change with performance why shouldn't the setting? Next time actually pay attention in your high school or community college theatre appreciation class instead of calling post-modern theater some new age zoomer bullshit and you might actually learn a thing or two about literature for once in your life.

>>15445846
dilate

>>15445846
The setting is deliberately chosen by the author to establish the best possible space wherein the interpretation takes place
Of course you have a "right" to alter it, but that doesn't mean you should

>>15445734
>that t-shirt exists

>>15445858
Theatre is different from other forms of the written word not by inherently by what it has written in it, but by the fact it is meant to be spoken by an individual who dedicates time to emulate someone who would have the thought process to say such a thing in the first place. As such in literature we get to speculate about stagnant words on the page and what that has to say about a character and form different ideas on why they are the way they are, on stage through the lens of an actor this changes, either the actor or director makes a conscious effort to say "this is how everyone else thought this character should be played, but I think he's saying these things for a different reason and I can convey that through my inflection, motion, and performance of this character". This differentiation can be argued when reading the text, but it is meant to be seen and heard to truly be impactful and for the weight of the words as they pertain to character and the angle of understanding that is trying to be delivered.

Instead of reading "to be or not to be" in hamlet and simply making up your own notions of why he is contemplating suicide, when performed you may get a couple of different understandings of "to be or not to be" which can range from seeing a hamlet who is loosing his connection with reality and is seeing ghosts, a hamlet who is beside himself that all of his supposed loved ones have cast aside his recently late father for the new king claudius, or seeing a belittled young hamlet struggle with the world who seeks to play tricks and lie to him convincing him that he is the one at fault. We can get these from the page, but it is much more impactful and truly understandable seeing a struggling hamlet speak before us as the language was intended to be used when written.

But why time and setting are important, is that character and people alike are products of their environment. We become who we are based upon where we live, who we interact with, and how we grew up. This is the same with character, and theatre is all about suspension of disbelief, so if we dont correctly believe that the hamlet we're seeing actually lives in the time period portrayed then all meaning is lost. But if removed to a new time and new place, then we get to see interpretations of characters and plays on themes that were inconcievable to the playwright when the words were written. Theatre lives because we live with it, and the stories get to live and grow with humanity only as long as we are willing to keep entertaining them.

>>15445931
didn't read lol

>>15445875
But that's from a literature epistemology that implies that the form of storytelling in the form of the novel is inherently correct, which is untrue as all written word is equally the same until given value by the reader. The writers job ends at publication, and sometimes the date isn't specified. A large majority of the non-history plays by shakespeare never mention a time period, in fact most plays don't unless you're talking plays that name specific historic events as recent or if you're reading a play from the 1800's where they liked to specify it was recent because the theatre world was changing over from romantic to realist.

>>15445935
Tl;dr environment matters just as much as character because it is the environment that allows for the creation of a specific character.

>>15445734
Some of them are pretty good

>>15445734
This remains poignant as the day it was written. https://entertainment.theonion.com/unconventional-director-sets-shakespeare-play-in-time-1819569151

>>15445734
>"modern-day interpretation of fairy tales"