Shakespeare's Othello Intro

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William Shakespeare is a well-known English poet, playwright, and actor. He was born on April 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon. In education he learned Latin, Greek, history, math, astronomy, and music. This led him to become a actore and riter for plays of comedies, histories,tragedies, and romances.

Shakespeare Vocabulary was very popular during the years and he knew many words but some were never used.

Verse vs. Prose

Verse: Poetic language with meter and rhyme with syllables within each measure.

Prose: A sentence without meter or rhyme.

The usage for both these terms s a poetic style verse for specific characters, and moments in this story, known as verse.

Prose for the low status characters with a more challenging and negative expressions.

In the story of Othello the situations are in verse and speaking in prose.