Hamlet
Watching the entirety of the most recent Doctor Who series has reminded me how much I love David Tennant (and also how much I hate Matt Smith but that's irrelevant). Point is, this entry is all about Hamlet, and how awesome Hamlet is as a play and how boring it is to read on paper. The topic of the paper on this story was all about the difference between the reading and the performance, but honestly I do not see the point in comparing the mediums. Now although the poetry in Hamlet (as in all Shakespeare plays) is brilliant and is worth examining word-for-word, it really is not meant to be just read, that's why they are scripts, that is why they are plays, they are made to be performed. Reading Shakespeare is just excruciating, and I mean really excruciating. The monologues and soliloquies are wonderful when read aloud, by actors and performed on stage in a production. On top of that, much of what is lost in translation from Old English to the modern vernacular, comes through in the individual performances of each actor on stage. David Tennant played a wonderful Hamlet in the BBC TV showing of the play, and I would not want to go through the story any other way than watching a performance.
Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Literature: A World of Writing. Katherine Glynn. Boston: Longman, 2011. Print.
Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Literature: A World of Writing. Katherine Glynn. Boston: Longman, 2011. Print.