Ritalin comments on The Classic Literature Workshop - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ritalin 25 June 2013 11:28:38PM -1 points [-]

To be honest, I had the opposite problem. Dialogue with no captions or directions or context? How am I supposed to guess how the characters feel?

And, honestly, moden actors take playing Shakespeare so damn seriously, they could be saying "ba ba ba ba" and still sound emotionally three-dimensional and intense and layered and stuff. I keep finding that the text often doesn't measure up to the skill invested in portraying it.