most of them r from diaries so they're short and barely even tell historians about the play... imagine someone using letterboxd to try to understand what ppl thought of a movie and all they see is "my favorite part was paul mescals thighs" 😭 this is your sign to be annoying and write everythinggg about the movie u watched!! its for the historians!! (these are excerpts from "Eyewitnesses of Shakespeare: first hand accounts of performances 1590-1890" by Gamini Salgado and "Playgoing in Shakespeare'a London" by Andrew Gurr)
i love it, they’re always so short and you get to imagine youre in the play or watching the play and really fleshing out the characters in your mind and falling in love with them! what a beautiful thing.
