Are plays meant to be viewed or read?

>They're meant to be heard.
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Hamlet. Act 2. Scene 2.

HAMLET
Follow him, friends. We'll hear a play tomorrow...

>are movies meant be viewed or read

They're meant to be heard.

You are supposed to roll up the script, cover it in peanut butter and gasoline, then shove it up your ass sideways.

read, then viewed, then read again. come on user.

They're meant to be read and interpreted, then acted out in the manner of one's interpretation, being viewed and criticized by others who have their own interpretations.

I think it depends on the play

In what way? What sort of play demands reading? What kind demands viewing?

Viewed, obviously. You need to remember that being a playwright was only part of Shakespeare's artistry. He was also a theatrical director (and sometime actor). He was a man who lived and breathed the theatre. I think he would have wanted his plays performed and not just studied.

This guy is correct. Learned it in my Theatre History class.

Something like Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis or a lot of Konstantin Ildefyons Galczynski's short plays are extremely hard to stage if not unstageable. A lot of experimental theatre is like that.

Shakespeare is meant to be heard and seen (in that order).

Didn't know that. Thanks!

I read death of a salesmen back when I was young not knowing it was a play

I guess it depends how much conversation actually happens

Viewed, unless the original playwright is dead.
Otherwise it should be read, because the new directors will fuck up the original intention (despite whether or not the new interpretation has any merit).

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>no one says shit about shake-a-spear looking black
Glad we got /pol/ out finally. I guess the based mods actually banning their ass made them think about polposting outside pol.

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What do you think op?