Intro to Shakespeare's Othello

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William Shakepeare

Born April 1564

Classical edu. -latin,greek, history,math, astronomy, and music

wrote 38 plays -comidy, history, tragedy, and romance

Verse Vs. Prose

V: Poetic language -meter and rhyme and consistant with numer of sylables

High statues char. tragic moments

P: Written language - no meter and rhyme with sentences

low statues char. comdic moments, accusations

Meter

Pattern of un/stressed syllables,creates rhythm in a line, free metrical feet in a line of V

Foot

Group of syllables, form meterical patterns, most common

Blank Verse

Unrhymed lambic pentameter

Free Verse

No regular meter

Sonnet

14 line poem

organized in three quatains and couplet

regular rhyme scheme

4-pt. org. has greater lexibility ab. thermatic breaks

pronounced break/ turn- concluding couplet

Sonnet: Quarain and Couplet

Q: 4-line V stanza

C: pair of rhyming V lines