Introduction to Shakespeares othello

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William Shakespeare

-born April 1564Stratford on-Avon

-wrote four lengthy poems and a sonnet cycle

- Has thirty eight plays/ comedies, histories, tragedies and eomances

Shakespeares vocab.

- Verse vd. Verse / Aside

- Meter/ Foil

- Foot/ Tragedy

Verse vs. Prose

- Verse: poetic language that includes meter and sometimes rhyme

- Prose: ordinary written language with with no meter or rhyme; organized in sentences

Meter and Foot

- Foot: group of syllables that forms one complete unit of material

- Iambic pentameter the most common materical pattern in Shakespeare

Sonnet

-14 line poem written in iambic pentameter

- typical rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg

- Ends with concluding couplet

Aside, Monologue, and Soliloquy

- Aside: a characters remark, either to the audience or another character, that other characters on stage are not supposed to hear.

- Monologue: an extended speech by a single character that is uninterrupted by others.

-Solilquy: a speech a character gives when he or she is alone on stage.