Othello

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SLIDE 1 Introduction

Othello is one of the many tragedy plays Shakespeare has written.

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 1564

he had a well rounded education including Latin, history, Greek and math

Shakespeare wrote 38 plays and 4 lengthy poems

Shakespeare vocabulary/ Verse vs prose

Prose means ordinary language with no rhyme and a verse is in poetic language that includes a meter and sometimes rhymes

verse is used for characters with high status while prose is used for low status

Shakespeare meter/foot

meter is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

meter is responsible for creating the rhythm of the poem

foot is a group of syllables that form one complete unit of a metrical pattern

meter is also described by the number of metrical feet in a line of a verse

Iambic Pentameter

Iambic pentameter is the most common pattern in Shakespeare

Iamb is the stressed or unstressed syllable

Pentameter is the lines of five iambic fee/ 10 syllables

Blank Verse vs Free verse

blank verse is unrhymed

free verse has no regular meter

Sonnet

14 lines in iambic pentameter

three quatrains and a couplet

rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg

climax is in couplet

quatrain; four lines stanza

couplet pair of rhyming lines

Aside Monologue Soliloquy

aside ; a characters remark either to the audience or another character that excluded characters arent supposed to hear

monologue; a long speech given by one character that is uninterrupted

soliloquy; a speech a character gives when they are alone on stage

foil; a character whose personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of another character/opposite of another character in the story

Allusion; reference to an event person place or another piece of literature

Tragedy

represents the downfall of a hero

downfall caused by heros fatal flaw

hero is good man

hero comes to an understanding of what has happened

moor; muslim person of arab descent

cuckold; a man whose wife is unfaithful to him

Othello

Setting ; venice italy to cyprus

venice; order rule of reason

cyprus disorder rule of passion

theme

love and marriage

jealousy

honesty

reputation