![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That “exit stage” was not meant for us to read, but for an actor to do. ![]() The Bard never meant for his works to be read by students, but enjoyed in play form. Disguising herself as a servant boy, Gilly finds work in the kitchen of her enemys castle. The rich financed his works, but also he made fun of them at the same time. This is going to ruffle some feathers, but his stories were like the Marvel movies or popular broadway shows of Elizabethan England-something anyone rich or poor could enjoy at a time when literacy was not a thing for most of the population. While the professor did subsequently inform my class that we would be reading Hamlet for its merits of discussion for a college Comp II class, I understood his perspective that Shakespeare was never intended to be read, so it’s no wonder students (even voracious readers) sweat at the idea of cracking open one of his many long-form works. More often in popular culture, however, the Three Witches have taken on a life. It took a literal Shakespearean scholar and actor telling me, “You think you don’t like Shakespeare’s work because you don’t like reading the plays,” for me to figure it out. for example, sustains Rebecca Reisert's novel The Third Witch (2001). While now I seek dramatic or comedic interpretations of his work, for the longest time, I didn’t know how I felt about the Bard. ![]()
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