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  There's a traditionalist argument   
 though, isn't there -

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  There is.

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  that simply by filming Shakespeare  
  we're doing injustices to the text…

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  ..that we're diminishing the text.

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  That's right, betraying it in some  
  way.

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  I have a certain sympathy with   
 that in the sense that…

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  ..actually it's quite an old   
 argument isn't it…

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  ..the most famous advocate of it   
 was really the romantic essayist
  Charles Lamb, who…

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  ..I think very eloquently made the  
  case for…

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  ..theatrical versions always   
 really being doomed however
  wonderful they are,

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  to impoverish the wealth of meaning…

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  ..that you can glean from a   
 reading of the play…

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  ..in the privacy of your own study  
  or inside your own mind,

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  because every particular production,

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  however remarkable the actors,   
 however interesting and original
  the direction,

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  has got to interpret it, has to   
 make decisions.