[ SECRET POST #2111 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2111 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This just seems exactly like a lot of those butthurt Harry Potter/A Song of Ice and Fire/Lord of the Rings fans who freak out about how the adaptations don't match their specific vision of what it should be. Some adaptations will be to your taste and some won't be, but that does not make the rest of us idiots for enjoying them.

Then again, I have no idea how to judge Shakespeare productions because I enjoyed THC's Henry IV, Part 1 when I found it on YouTube and I've enjoyed a Western version of Much Ado About Nothing and a version of A Comedy of Errors set in 1920s New Orleans with a jazzy bent. I'm probably going to Shakespeare Hell for not taking his plays as deadly serious as I'm supposed to.

[(Anonymous)]

I think that, you know, it kind of depends on the situation. The setting of a Shakespeare play matters less than the interpretation. The setting, whatever, if that's to your taste or not, it's just a matter of taste; there's certainly a long tradition of staging Shakespeare in different ways and taking Shakespeare with a sense of humor is a good thing. But some interpretations are, I think, less worthy or less valid than others, and I think that it's valid to critique those, and to take that somewhat seriously; there's certainly nothing wrong with taking it seriously. I think that, ultimately, the interpretation and the content of the performance matters far more than the aesthetic choices about set design (which, I think, ultimately flow out of, or should flow out of, the larger philosophical-interpretative choices).

I mean, on a certain level, de gustibus non est disputandum, but on a certain level, it's valid to disagree about the content of an interpretation. And I think all of this holds, mutatis mutandis, for the other things you're talking about - there's a difference between nitpicking minor changes, and criticizing major changes in tone or intent that alter things integral to the work.