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Lecture Notes: Shakespearean Language
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| Shakespeare is
considered to be a genius. He wrote 37 plays in approximately 21 years
and is believed to have coined over 1,000 words, many of which are
still in use today. Despite his genius, it is Shakespeare’s language that sometimes makes his plays difficult to understand; however, once readers learn to recognize his techniques, the meaning behind the words begins to shine through. Shakespeare wrote in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter (each line equals five iambs). One iamb is called a foot. Each foot contains one unstressed and one stressed syllable. In order to maintain his meter, Shakespeare sometimes altered standard English in the following ways: • He sometimes changed grammar. • He sometimes inverted word order. • He sometimes omitted words or letters. |
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