People read Shakespeare's plays because they do not have the good fortune to be able to watch them. Although the plays are constantly in production, it would take many years of dedicated theatre-going, as well as residence in a place where Shakespeare productions are common, to see all 38 plays. Sometimes you can see movies but movie-makers tend to focus on a few well-known plays.
People sometimes read the plays to try to get more out of them that watching a performance might give. Also, they are read by actors and directors who are planning to produce one of the plays, as well as students who are trying to understand how the plays are constructed and what makes them so good.
Really? Go read Romeo and Juliet. Everybody dies.
The actors who needed to learn their lines. And even they didn't have to read the whole play, just the part they were in. More recently, schoolchildren have to read the plays as part of their English Language courses.
the queen loved shakespeares plays alot and many people did and still do
It is a line from William Shakespeares Hamlet. Most of William Shakespeares plays are still famous now as he is regarded as the greatest writer in the English Language.
Presumably because they do not have an internet connection or a DVD player or access to a theatre so they can watch them be performed as was intended. Shakespeare did not intend that anyone apart from the actors should read his plays. Everyone else was to pay admission and watch.
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I first found Shakespeare's plays when I was introduced to them at school.
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The Globe Theater, London.
The Puritans.