\ ~ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks: awkward rhythms: Romeo is confused and lacks confidenceĢ0 Ex. Only three feet (six syllables)… so a two-beat pause… WHY? \ ~ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ It is my lady, O, it is my love! \ ~ ~ \ ~ \ _ _ O, that she knew she were! ~ \ ~ ~ \ \ ~ \ ~ \ She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that? ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ Her eye discourses I will answer it. two syllables slurred as one all three syllables… why?ġ9 Ex. ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ Who is already sick and pale with grief, ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ That thou her maid art far more fair than she: ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ Be not her maid, since she is envious ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ Her vestal livery is but sick and green ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ And none but fools do wear it cast it off. regular iambic pentameter line: 10 syllables trochee foot two syllables slurred as one Look at the stressed words: they tell the story: Soft! Light breaks… east, Jul (jewel?) is sun.ġ8 Ex. ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? \ ~ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. 1: Romeo and Juliet ROMEO ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ ~ \ The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet Hamlet’s soliloquy (dramatic monologue) Graphic symbols: ~ = an unaccented syllable \ = an accented syllable _ = a caesura, or metrical pauseīut, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.ġ7 Ex. Iambic pentameter: five unstressed/stressed feet per line… ten syllables per line baBUM baBUM baBUM baBUM baBUMġ5 Two Examples… Two of the most famous scenes in Shakespeare: “Meter” refers to the number of “feet” in a line of poetry One foot: Monometer Two feet: Dimeter Three feet: Trimeter Four feet: Tetrameter Five feet: Pentameterġ2 Blank Verse Shakespeare wrote many of his plays in “blank verse”… UNrhymed iambic pentameter Sonnets are written in iambic pentameter as well, but with a very specific rhyme scheme How many syllables per line? Reading a poem for rhythm and meter is called “scansion”ġ0 Feet and Meter A poetic “foot” is a multi-syllable “chunk” of the line that has a particular order of stress iamb: unstressed followed by stressed Examples: aRISE, aGAINST, reSPECT trochee: stressed followed by unstressed Examples: WINdow, NOthing, TWINkle, FORtune Other feet: anapest, dactyl… and more Who attends a play? Audience What is the root of that word? Latin: audientia … to hearĨ The Actor’s Dilemma At the deepest level: what am I saying? What am I feeling? On the simplest level: How do I remember all those lines? Hamlet has over 1300 lines Is it easier to remember a paragraph or the words to a song?ĩ Scansion Songs have rhythm… so do poems Who attends a play? Audience What is the root of that word? HUGE! Used between 17 and 26 THOUSAND different words in his plays and poems “Invented” over 1700 words (including…) arouse bet eyeball lonely obscene puking swagger torture No (or very limited) stage sets No (or very few) stage directions in the text No (or very limited) special effects All of this information must be conveyed through LANGUAGE No (or very limited) stage sets No (or very few) stage directions in the text No (or very limited) special effects Shakespearean Verse Scansion: Meaning and the Actor’s Guide 1 Scansion: Meaning and the Actor’s Guide
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