Shakespearean Drama

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Shakespearean Drama

• Ms. Galashaw
• English
• 9th Grade

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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 Two, Scene 2, Lines 109-112

• Juliet
• O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
• That monthly changes in her circle orb,
• Lest thy love prove likewise variable.

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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?

• Romeo
• Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
• Act two, Scene 2
• Line 37

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RHETORICAL DEVICESMake speech more convincing
and memorable
?

• Repetition
• Parallelism
• Rhetorical Questions

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Rhetorical Device?

• Romeo
• Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn
  back, dull earth and find thy center out.
• --Act Two, Scene 1, Lines 1-2

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DRAMATIC IRONY

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