Intro to Shakespeare's Othello

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Shakespeare's bibliography:

Baptized on April 26, 1564 to April 23, 1616

an English playwright, actor, and poet.

born in stratford-upon-avon

recieved a classical education.

Shakespeare's vocabs:

verse: poem language that includes rhyming sometimes and meter and also organized in lines with certain amount of numbers of syllables.

prose: still organized in sentences but without rhyming and meter

*usage: used for tragic moments and for characters that are wealthy while prose is for the opposite.

meter: pattern of (un)stressed syllables that's responsible for creating rhythm of a line

foot: one group of syllables at completes units or metrical pattern