Introduction to Shakespeare's Othello

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William Shakespeare

He was born in April 1564, his education included Latin, Greek, history, h, astronomy, and music. he wrote 38 plays and 4 poems.

Verse vs. Prose

Verse are lines with consistent number of syllables.

Prose has no meter or rhyme and organized in sentences. This was used for low status characters to express madness.

Meter is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. it's used to create the rhythm of a line.

Foot is a group of syllables that forms one complete unit of a metrical pattern.

Lambic pentameter is the most common metrical pattern in Shakespeare.

Black verse is an unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Free verse has no rule.

Sonnet is a 14 poem organized in 3 quatrain and a couplet, 4 part organized has greater flexibility about where themeatic beaks occur, most pronounced break or turn comes with concluding couplet.

Quatrain is a four line verse stanza

couplet a pair of rhyming verse lines

aside is a character's remark

monologue is an extended speech by a single character that is uninterrupted by others when they are alone on stage.

foil is a character whose personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of another character in the same work.

allusion is a reference to an event person,place, or another work of literature.

Tragady is a serious play representing the dis

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