Intro to Shakespeare's Othello

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William Shakespeare

He was born in Startford on avon in the year 64

Recevied an education in Latin and Greek/History/math/astronomy/music

Wrote 38 plays, which include comedies/histories/tragedies/romances

Vocab

Verse v. prose

Meter

Foot

Iambic Pentameter

Blank Verse vs. Free Verse

Sonnet

Quatrain

Couplet

Aside

Monoloque

Soliloquoy

Allusiion

Foil

Tragedy

Tragic Hero/Flaw

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Verse vs. Prose

Verse: Poetic language thats organized in a form of lines with a consistent number of syllables, has a meter and occasionaly ryhmes

Prose: Normal written out language with no meter or ryhme, organized in the form of sentences

The use of Verse is used for characters of high status or tragic moments/states of war

Prose is used for lesser characters, an example being a drunk, prose uses accusations/letters/moments of commedy to display the character's madness

Meter

Pattern of syllables that originate from unstressed and stressed syllables

Is in charge of creating rhythm for a line

Is described in the form of total number of metric feet in a line and its stressed/unstressed syllables

Feet

Pair of syllables that makes one complete unit of a metric pattern

Iambic Pentameter

Is a common patern used by Shakespeare

Iamb = unstressed syllable and stressed syllable

Pentameter = lines of five iambic feet

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Blank Verse V. Free Verse

Blank Verse: Out of ryhtmed iambic pentameter

Free Verse: Has no regular meter

Sonnet

A poem consisted of 14 lines, is written in an Iambic pentametrer

In the form of quatrains and a couplet

abab cd efef gg is the ryhme scheme

has greater flexibility of where thermatic breaks happens

Quatrain and Couplet

4 line verse stanza, normally rhymed

A couple of verse lines that rhyme

Aside/Monoloque/ Soliloquy

Character's remark to the audience or other characters present, remark wasn't su[ppoise to be heard