Waking Up From A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Waking Up From A Midsummer Night's Dream
As with every play we read this quarter, we started A Midsummer
Night s Dream with only a text. Reading the script is the foundation of
Shakespeare, and the least evolved of the ways that one can experience
it. There is no one to interpret the words, no body movement o!r voice
inflection to indicate meaning or intention. All meaning that a reader
understands comes from the words alone. The simplicity of text provides
a broad ground for imagination, in that every reader can come away from
the text with a different conception of what went on. The words are
merely the puzzle pieces individuals put together to bring coherence and
logic to the play.
Although we all read generally the same words, we
can see that vastly different plays arise depending on who interprets
them. By interpreting the word-clues that Shakespeare wrote into the
script to direct the performance of the play, we were able to imagine
gestures, expressions, and movements appropriate to the intention of the
playwright. An example of this can be seen in the different Romeo and
Juliets: Luhrman clearly had a more modern vision after reading the
script than did Zeffirelli did only 18 years before. The live
performance at the CalPoly theatre also carried !with it a very
different feel less intense, more child-like and sweet with nearly the
same words. Reading also affects our experience in that without the
text, we would most likely not be able to enjoy Shakespeare at all;
having the text makes Shakespeare widely accessible (available for free
on the web) to all that desire it. Once the script is obtained, anyone
can perform Shakespeare even everyday, non-actor citizens put on
Shakespeare whether it be in parks, at school, or in a forest.
My experience reading Shakepearean plays has shown me that reading
is necessary and fundamental part of grasping the fullness of the works.
I had wanted to read A Midsummer Night's Dream for quite some time.
Besides being a play by Shakespeare, I believe my desire to do so came
from seeing bits and pieces of it done in Hollywood movies like Dead
Poet's Society. I didn't realize how much small exposures like! those
could cause me to prejudge the actual text; after I had read the play
for myself I was surprised at how much the text differed from my
expectations. Not knowing the whole of the plot, but rather only bits
and pieces, I expected a play filled with fairy dust and pixy-women
toe-dancing, laughing, with flowers ev...
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