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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.

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