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Title: Shakespearean Drama


1
Shakespearean Drama
  • English

2
Three Classifications of Shakespearean Drama
  • COMEDY
  • HISTORY
  • TRAGEDY

3
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

4
BLANK VERSE
  • Verse Dramas
  • Blank Verse
  • Iambic Pentameter

5
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.

6
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

7
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

8
RHETORICAL DEVICESMake speech more convincing
and memorable
?
  • Repetition
  • Parallelism
  • Rhetorical Questions

9
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

10
DRAMATIC IRONY
  • Ironycontrast between appearance and reality
  • Dramatic Ironythe audience or reader knows
    something the character(s) does not know
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