the style of shakespeare

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Will iam Shakespeare

Worked by :

Accepted by :


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Contents:Introduction

1)Language

Ciches

Conceits Metaphors

2)Form :

Blank Verse

The Soliloquy

Iambic pentameter

Rhymed Verse Prose

3)Depth of Characters

4)Inspiration

5)Simil arit ies to Contemporaires

6)Differences to Contemporaires

7)The style of his plays

Titus Andronicus

The Two Gentleman of Verona

Romeo and Juliet

A midsummer Night s Dream

King Rechard The Second

Hamlet

Julius Ceasar

Macbeth


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Introduction.We have to work on this project to know

better one of best writers : W.Shakespeare.

We should be able to talk about his writing style

in all his plays.We should be able to talk more about his

language.

We should be able to talk about his characters.

We should know his inspiration.

We should be able to talk about

differences/similarities to conteporaires.


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1)The Language of Shakespeare

The English language has changed a great deal over

the last few hundred years, and it is sti l l

changing. Several words in use dur ing Shakespeare's

day either have different meanings today or have been

nearly forgotten. Here is a small l ist of some of the

most common words in Shakespeare with which you

might not be famil iar.


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anonright now, OR I come right away.Anon, good nurse Speak artare, OR skillThou art dead; no physicians art can save you.

dost or dothdoes or do Dost thou know the time?

erebefore We must leave ere daybreak. hiehurry Hie thee hence, or lose your lifemarkpay attention to Mark my words.

thyyour Thy name is more hateful than thy face.

And much more


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Clichs

Shakespeares phrases are now our clichs. They areuded from us into Shakespeare s form.

Examlpes :

fast and loose, in a pickle,cold comfort, flesh and blood,

foul play, tower of strength,

cruel to be kind,catch a cold,

heart of gold,

live long day, method in his madness,


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Conceits in literature

1. Shakespeare makes use of a conceit inAct 3, Scene 5 of his play Romeo and

Juliet. Capulet comes to Juliets room after

Romeo has left.


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He finds her weeping and says:

Thou counterfeitsta bark , a sea, a win d;For st i l l thy eyes, wh ich I may cal l the sea,

Do ebb and f low with tears; the bark thy body is,Sai l ing in th is sal t flood; th e winds, thy s ighs;

Who , raging w ith thy tears, and they w ith them,

Withou t a sudden calm, wi l l overset

Thy tempest-tossed body.


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Since Homer, no poet has come nearShakespeare in originality, freshness,

opulence, and boldness of imagery.

Shakespeare's Metaphors and Simi les


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Shakespeares books are full of Metaphors and Similes.That makes his writing style interesting and accepted by all

kind of people.

" Clear, loud, and lively is the din,

F rom social warblers gather ing in

Their harvest of sweet lays" ;

and when he says of hi s Lucy,--

" The stars of midnight shall be dear

To her; and she shal l lean her ear

I n many a secret place

Where rivulets dance their wayward round,And beautyborn of murmuring sound

Shall pass into her face"

We see twometaphors.


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Another example :"They are as gentle

As zephyrs, blowing below the violet,

Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough,

Their royal blood enchaf'd, as the rud'st wind,That by the top doth take the mountain pine,

And make him stoop to th' vale."

It s full of metaphors !


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2)Writing Forms of Shakespeare

Blank verses of Shakespeare

Shakespeare's use of blank verse, or

unrhymed iambic pentameter, is an

important element of his plays. In

rhymed verse, the words that fall at the

end of lines sound very similar, like

"love" and "dove," or "moon" and

"June.


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Blank verse, on the other hand, has no rhyme,but is does have a definite rhythm created

by the careful structuring of iambic feet-

patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

One poetic foot is a single unit that is

repeated in a steady rhythm to a line of

verse. The iambic foot (or iamb) consists of

an unstressed syllable followed by astressed syllable, like "inSIST" or "reSIST."


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Here's an example of blank verse fromHamlet

As you read it, listen for the iambic

pentameter rhythm:

But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,

So far from cheer and from your former

state,

That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must.


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The soli lqouy

Most of Shakespeares longer speeches for one character

are soliloquiesa moment when a character shares their

inner feelings with the audience alone. Often, the character

discusses what is happening to them and their current

options. They use this time cut out of the play to assesstheir situation, make sense of it and devise a plan. Most

characters use the audience during the soliloquy as if they

are a friend, so the audience needs to feel part of the

discussion and complicit in the characters plans.Historians are not sure how the speeches were read aloud

whether delivered naturally or with an emphasis on the

stressed words.


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I ambic Pentameter

Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter. The

results were plays and sonnets that had ten

syllables per line and with his plays, these lines

were unrhymed. The simplest way to describe therhythm of iambic pentameter is to liken it to a

heartbeat, which means a series of stressed words,

then unstressed words. In the case of the heartbeat,

it would sound like bump BUMP, bump BUMP.

Using an example from Shakespeare's sonnets,

this would be:

When Ido countthe clockthat tellsthe time


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Turning into a new style.

While writing such classics as A

Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and

Juliet, and Richard II in the late 16thcentury, Shakespeare gradually developed

and changed his writing style from the

traditional form to a more self-expressivestyle. He progressively used his metaphors

and tropes to the desires of the melodrama

itself.


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Rhymed Verses

While blank verse forms the basis of Shakespeare's writing, he often

uses rhyme. Frequently a rhymed couplet (a pair of lines whose end

words rhyme) closes the scene .

Shakespeare uses rhyme and a variety of rhythm patterns todistinguish special characters such as the witches in Macbeth and Puck

in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Double, double, toil and trouble

Fire burn and cauldron bubble- chant the witches .

In addition to the rhyme, notice that this is not an iambic line, being

only four feet long and with the stresses reversed from the iambic.

Shakespeare has created a special musical rhythm for these

supernatural characters.


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Prose

The convention in Shakespeare's time was to write plays in verse. His

extensive use of prose is yet another sign of his inventiveness and

capacity to break with custom when it served his plan.

He uses prose for a variety of purposes. Often lower class or comic

characters speak prose while the more socially or morally elevatedcharacters speak in verse, but this is far from always the case. Some of

Hamlet's most important speeches, such as his advice to the players,

are in prose.

The conversational tone of prose can make a character seem more

natural at a particular moment or it can indicate the degeneration of anoble nature as it does with Othello. A swift movement from prose to

poetry or the reverse is always an indication that a change is taking

place. Shakespeare is remarkably skillful in his flexible use of verse

forms and prose. While verse is more formally structured than prose,

prose is not necessarily more free from rules.


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3)Depth of character.

Shakespeares plays are filled with an

impressive variety of charactersfrom

kings and queens to maids and ghosts.While most of Shakespeares plays were

inspired by existing tales, Shakespeare was

skilled at embracing each story, making ithis own and crafting it for the stage.


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Shakespeares books

are ful l o f characters.

E h h l b


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Each women character was complex because

womens nature is that way. This fact stands in

Shakespearean theater plays. We can not

understand the intentions of the characters at thefirst view. Only a ctritic eye may understand them

in a complete way.

Women are in the center of atten t ion


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depth ?

The characers are depth because they are :

emotions

Relations

Doubts about what

they are doung.

Why Shakespeare characters are depth ?


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Heres a graphic for King Lear tragedy.


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4)InspirationInspirationis something that

stimulates the mind and emotionsto a higher level of creativity.

Will iam Shakespeare was inspired by :


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Shakespeare was inspired by :

critic of his time.

Confl icts and poli tical situation.

Older ballads ;Titus Andronicus.

by nature, by every place in England ;

by big castels and smal l wi l lage homes.


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5)Similarities to contemporaries

Besides following the popular forms of his day,Shakespeare's general style is comparable to several of his

contemporaries. His works have many similarities to the

writing of Christopher Marlowe, and seem to reveal strong

influences from the Queen's Men's performances,

especially in his history plays. His style is also comparable

to Francis Beaumont's and John Fletcher's, other

playwrights of the time.
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6)Differences from contemporaries

Will iam Shakespeare was dif ferent from his

contemporaries. He used complex people to make

a complex tragedy. Nothing was easy, everything

has many points of view. Example of complex

characters are : Makbeth, Hamled and eventhough

Romeo and Juliet. No-one can make the same

wirtings as Shakespeare because Shakespeare has

his own language, his own world.


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7)The style of his plays :

Titus AndronicusLike all of Shakespeare's plays, TitusAndronicus is

written in a combination of verse (poetry) and prose (howwe talk every day). In general, here's what you should

remember about Shakespeare's plays: The upper-class

characters tend to speak in unrhymed "iambic pentameter"

or "blank verse," which is a pretty formal way to talk.


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The Two Gentleman of VeronaReading any one of Shakespeare's plays can feel

like reading a really lengthy poem and that's

because they're written in a combination of verse

(poetry) and prose (how we talk every day).


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Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is arguably the greatesttragedy ever written. Using tragic elements such as pride,

death, pain, and loss, he creates one of the most dynamic

wolds in all of literature. It is the pride of the Montague

and Capulet families which leads to the deaths of their

children. The inability of the families to put aside their

differences, even for true love, is the primary flaw in the

tragedy. Ironically, the players of this drama in and of

themselves are basic comic characters.
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A M idsummer Night' s Dreamcontains

a fair amount of regular old prose (how

we talk every day), but it's is famous

for its dazzling displays of verse, or

poetry. The three most common types

of verse in the play are:

iambic pentameterrhymed verse, and catalectic trochaic

tetrameter.


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In Macbeththe noble characters mostlyspeak in unrhymed iambic pentameter,

which is a fancy way of saying they talk

like this:ba-DUM, ba-DUM, ba-DUM, ba-DUM,

ba-DUM.
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CONCLUSIONWilliam Shakespeare was the most influential writer of all-

time, bringing a lyrical element to plays about great kingsand poor paupers alike. His iambic pentameter verses

utilized a natural rhythm of the English language and his

themes as well as his literary devices continue to inspire

and influence writers even now in the 21st century.We learnt a lot about his style and also some writing

techniques too.

We learnt about his language : metaphors ,clichs etc .In

the end of this project we are able to speak about

Shakespeare typical writing forms starting from :iambicpentameter,blank verse and for rhymed verse or the

soliloquy .

His own style seems to be very used for example in depth of

his characters.


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Conclusion

We learnt about ShakespEare writing

style in details.


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BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare's_

style

http://www.freelancewriting.com/articles/W

S-the-writing-style-of-william-

shakespeare.php

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and

Characters, Volume I. New York: Ginn and

Co.

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WorkgroupContents,,Introduction,Targets. - Tea Shurdho Word presentatio

Biblography,Conclusions

The language of Shakespeare Kristo Sidheri

(phrases,clichs,conceits,

metaphors similes,examples )

Writing Forms of Shakespeare Rudina Verdho

(Blank verse ,The Solilqouy,

Iambic Pentametre, Rhymed

Verses,Prose)

Depth of character ,Inspiration, Realb Kushe Powerpoint presentation.

,Similarities to conteporaires,

Differences to contporaires :

The style of his plays ( Titus Andronicus, Sandri Fuqi

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