The Stage:
Announcing the app, McKellen claimed too many people experience Shakespeare’s plays for the first time when they read the scripts, and are therefore not enjoying them as they were intended.
Giving a talk at the BFI in London, the actor said Shakespeare’s works are “meant to be heard”, explaining: “It’s always a bother to me that so many people meet Shakespeare not in the theatre, not even on the screen, but on the page.”
He continued: “I think to give somebody unfamiliar with reading the text a Shakespeare play to enjoy is as daft as giving them the score of a Mozart piano concerto. You can read it, but you can’t hear it.”
McKellen makes a great point. I read Shakespeare in High School English and, while I enjoyed it, it wasn’t until I heard it on stage and in film that I really appreciated the beauty of Shakespeare’s language. Looking forward to seeing this on the App Store on April 23 – the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
I was fortunate to have several public school teachers who were capable of making Shakespeare interesting and emotionally pertinent, which gave me a good footing for becoming more familiar with the plays in later years. Picking up the intent of his language and verse is a bit like becoming accustomed to hearing an unfamiliar dialect.
It took me awhile to learn how to read the plays in a way that would let me “hear” their voices. As long as I have a page-by-page glossary of archaic terms (such as the Folger Library paperbacks provide), I can remember that his characters are full of real-world insecurity, sarcasm, hope, and devotion… and that makes it easier when all I have is a book in my hand.
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