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I was thinking of that mainly because I didn't grow up with much live theater experience (though there were a couple of school outings to plays), and I suspect that I would likely have just ignored Stoppard's staging directions, if I had read the play when I was younger, and just imagined the whole thing in my head as a movie, where you cut back and forth between time periods. (I definitely pictured R&J as a movie and not a play when I first read it.) Which is to say, I guess, that maybe students can still get something out of reading Arcadia even if they don't make that particular leap?

I hear you on the performance clips, though! It's so frustrating to want to teach anything beyond a couple of the more popular Shakespeare plays, if you want to give students a sense of what a performance might look like.