From: Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England
Died: 23rd April 1616
Period: English Renaissance, Elizabethan Era
Occupation: Playwright, poet, actor, businessman
From what has been learn about Shakespeare, it is believed he has written 38 plays, 2 long narrative poems, some rhythmic verses and around 154 sonnets. He produced most of his known work between the time of 1589 and 1613. His earlier plays were predominately Comedies and Histories and then he wrote mainly Tragedies until about 1608. In the final six years of his known career he wrote tragicomedies (romances).
Shakespeare's Dialogue:
Singular Pronouns:
. Thou = You (subject) "Thou art my brother"
. Thee = You (object) "Come let me clutch thee"
. Thy = Your (Possessive Adjective) "What is thy name"
. Thine = Your (Possessive noun) "To thine own self be true"
. Ye = You (crowd/group) "Ye shall know me"
Verb Inflections:
. est - "Thou liest malignant thing"
. st - "What didst thou see"
Common Shakespearean Words:
. you - aye/yea
. no - nay
. until later - anon
. day - morrow
. why - wherefore
. maybe - mayhap/belike/perchance
. belief - troth
Iambic Pentameter:
. It has ten syllables in each line
. It is also known as Blank verse
. It has five pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables
. The rhythm in each line sounds like:
ba-BUM/ba-BUM/ba-BUM/ba-BUM/ba-BUM
Rhymed Verse:
. It is also known as Calatectic Trochaic Tetrameter
. It has eight syllables in each line
. It has four pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables
. It usually rhythms at the end of each line
. The rhythm in each line sounds like:
DUM-da/DUM-da/DUM-da/DUM-da
Rhetorical Devises of Shakespeare:
. Alliteration - e.g silly sausage
. Single Syllables Words - (to be or not to be) naturally slows downs the dialogue
. End Words - important to get across the meaning of the line (text)
. Assonance - vowel sound that clash with each other
. Disonance - simular but not rhythming vowel sounds
. Antithesis - using opposites to get across their points
. Shared Lines - blank verse rhythm is shared over two characters dialogue
. Caesura - a full stop to end a character's thought
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