Do you speak verse or prose httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvU2V8ccCNQIg 4 min Prose Prose refers to ordinary speech with no regular pattern of accentual rhythm used whenever verse would seem ID: 778179
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Slide1
Marlowe and Shakespeare
Verse and Prose
Slide2Do you speak verse or prose?
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4 min
Slide3Prose
Prose refers to ordinary speech with no regular pattern of accentual rhythm.
used
whenever verse would seem
bizarre
Ex. Madness in Macbeth
Low comedy
Serious letters (Lady Macbeth)
When characters are cynical, rational, sharing common sense or very irrational.
Relaxed conversation
Slide4Meter:
a
recognizable rhythm in a line of verse consisting of a pattern of regularly recurring stressed and unstressed syllables.
Foot/feet
a metric "foot" refers to the combination of a strong stress and the associated weak stress (or stresses) that make up the recurrent metric unit of a line of verse
.
Slide5Iambic Pentameter
a
particular type of metric "foot" consisting of two syllables,
an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable ("
da
DUM"); the opposite of a "troche."
U/U/U/U/U/
"The course of true love never did run true" (MND I.i.134).
da
DUM
da
DUM
da
DUM
da
DUM
da
DUM
the
COURSE of TRUE love
NEver
DID run TRUE).
Slide6Troche
the
opposite of an
iamb
a
stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable ("DA
dum
"). /U
"Double, double, toil and trouble;/ Fire burn and caldron bubble" (MAC IV.i.10-11).
DA
dum
DA
dum
DA
dum
DA
dum
DOUble
DOUble
TOIL and
TROUble
).
Slide7Verse
poetry: literature in metrical
form
Rhyming verse
Blank verse
Slide8Rhyming Verse
usually in rhymed
couplets
two
successive lines of verse of which the final words rhyme with
another
Pattern is usually
aa
bb cc
etc
Helena's lament in A Midsummer Night's Dream (I.i.234-9):
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
("
a" rhyme)
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. ("a" rhyme)
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; ("b" rhyme)
Wings, and no eyes, figure
unheedy
haste: ("b" rhyme)
And therefore is Love said to be a child, ("c" rhyme)
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. ("c" rhyme)
Slide9RHYME
often
used for ritualistic or choral effects and for highly lyrical or sententious passages that give advice or point to a moral
Witches in Macbeth
Slide10Blank Verse
Unrhymed
iambic
pentameter
iambic pentameter consists
of ten syllables alternating unstressed and stressed
syllables
some
irregularities, such an occasional troche mixed in with the iambs or an extra unstressed syllable at the end of a
line
Slide11The
Tragicall
History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus
Performed around 1592
First published 1604 (quarto, A text)
Published again 1616 (quarto, B text)
Slide12Christopher Marlowe
baptized
26 February 1564–30 May
1593
(
Shakespeare,
baptized 26
April 1564; died 23 April
1616)