Shakespearean Drama

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Shakespearean Drama

• English

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Three Classifications of Shakespearean Drama

• COMEDY
• HISTORY
• TRAGEDY

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TRAGIC HERO

• Qualities of a Tragic Hero
• Possesses high importance or rank
• Exhibits extraordinary talents
• Displays a tragic flawan error in judgment or
  defect in characterthat leads to downfall
• Faces downfall with courage and dignity

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BLANK VERSE

• Verse Dramas
• Blank Verse
• Iambic Pentameter

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Act One, Scene 2, Lines 192-195

• Let me have men about me that are fat
• Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o
  nights,
• Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look
• He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.

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SOLILOQUY AND ASIDE

• Long speech given by a character while alone on
  stage to reveal his or her private thoughts or
  intentions
• Characters quiet remark to the audience or
  another character that no one else on stage is
  supposed to hear

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SOLILOQUY OR ASIDE?

• Trebonius Caesar, I will. And so near will I be
  
• That your best friends shall wish I had been
  further.
• --Act Two, Scene 2, Lines 124-125

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RHETORICAL DEVICESMake speech more convincing
and memorable
?

• Repetition
• Parallelism
• Rhetorical Questions

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Rhetorical Device?

• And do you now put on your best attire?
• And do you now cull out a holiday?
• --I, i, L50-51
• Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved
  Rome more.
• --III, ii, L22-23

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DRAMATIC IRONY

• Ironycontrast between appearance and reality
• Dramatic Ironythe audience or reader knows
  something the character(s) does not know