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What's so great about Shakespeare and his works? / What should a rapper know about why Shakespeare is so famous?
Summary
His reputation is overblown / He's become overhyped
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- Related links
- Wikipedia - Shakespeare's writing style
- Shakespeare's characters were complex and human in nature.
- He made the protagonist's character development central to the plot
- He changed what could be accomplished with drama (by making character development central to the plot).
- Wikipedia - Shakespeare's writing style
- Dramatic techniques
- http://penandthepad.com/dramatic-techniques-shakespeare-8540495.html
- Monologues and Soliloquies
- Recurring Imagery
- Unexpected Asides
- Dramatic Irony
- http://penandthepad.com/dramatic-techniques-shakespeare-8540495.html
- He writes lyrics that are open to more than one interpretation / ambiguous / have more than one meaning.
- The Beatles wrote lyrics that were open to interpretation, but I think in some cases they were just writing nonsense that their listeners would interpret as containing secret meaning.
- Shakespeare also wrote things that had full double-meanings, like double-entendres.
Misc
- 2017.02.24 - YouTube - NativLang - What Shakespeare's English Sounded Like - and how we know
- Towards the end he gives an example of Shakespeare playing around with the ordering of words, where he combines two sentences into one, so that the audience has to untangle them:
- I with death and with
Reward did threaten and encourage him,
Not doing ’t and being done - Translation:
I threatened to kill him if he didn’t and to reward him if he did.
- I with death and with
- Towards the end he gives an example of Shakespeare playing around with the ordering of words, where he combines two sentences into one, so that the audience has to untangle them:
- StackExchange - Literature - Why did Shakespeare write in iambic pentameter?
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