Reading Aloud Is Good for the Brain
Scientific Proof
This article describes a study conducted in 2005. The full text of the study appears in Beneficial Effects of Reading Aloud, and referenced in the introduction to Nintendo’s Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day.
READING ALOUD FLUENTLY in native or foreign languages and doing mathematical calculations quickly are extremely important for the development of the brain, according to a university study on human brains.
E-Reading
Historical Perspective
Throughout history, the only valid reason people who could read didn’t cold-read plays— aside from the fact that they frequently saw them performed on stage instead—was the trouble and expense of providing scripts for all the readers.
Think about that.
All the other arguments are explored and debunked elsewhere on this site, but the bother of finding and paying for scripts made it an impractical pastime; otherwise, why wouldn’t families have read plays together of an evening—as they did poetry and prose (one reading to the others); as they played games, sang songs, told stories? Plays are all these things combined!
Dawn of a New Age
No argument is more persuasive for incorporating cold reads into popular culture than the Internet. For the first time in human history play scripts are instantaneously available and free.
Think about that.
What’s been impractical for centuries is now free and easy!
Hamilton
Click to download (and save) both acts of the script
(or print it out)
Hamilton
by Stephen-Adly Guirgis
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