Poetry In blank verse and rhyme first letter of each line capitalized
Blank Verse (Marlowe’s mighty line)
Rhyme (noble/scene ending)
Prose-normal language (commoners/Ignoble)
Iamb (soft/loud)
10 syllables= 5 feet
2 syllables=1 foot
5 feet= pentameter
Shall I1/ compare2/ thee to3/ a sum4/mer’s day?5/
First syllable is soft then the second is loud like thee TO
Sentence inversion (make you slow down make you pay more attention)
I ate the sandwich
The sandwich I ate
The sandwich ate I
Ate the sandwich I
Ate I the sandwich
I the sandwich ate
Omissions(Contractions) A good playwright will try to make a person sound real
Tis= it is
Ope= open
O’er= over
Gi’= give
Ne’er= never
I’= in
E’er= ever
Ere=beforee
Oft=often
A’= he (archaic)
E’en= even
Before the play starts the 1st triumvirate 3 rulers of the roman world Julius Caesar(full of himself supported by the common flock), Pompey(supported by the rich), Crassius
Play opens up on the feast of the lupercal- February 15th 45-44BC founding feast of Rome
Rome is a Republic and is a representative government
Brutus helps make the republic