Please answer the following questions in your own blog:
1. What is "blank verse"? Give an example of it from your book.Blank verse is when there is no set rhythm or rhyme but follows the patter of iambic pentameter
"He is no less than what we say he is" Page 11
2. Interpret these Shakespearean lines using your Shakespeare Packet: Reading Shakespeare's English:
a. "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" [R&J]
3. How many creative Shakespearean insults can you come up with? Add "thou" or "thine" to the front of the lists picked up on your way in: "Thou+Column A+Column B+Column C!"
Post your BEST Shakespearean insult as a "comment" below.
2. Interpret these Shakespearean lines using your Shakespeare Packet: Reading Shakespeare's English:
a. "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" [R&J]
Hey wait, what time is it?
b. "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." [Sonnets XVIII]
b. "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." [Sonnets XVIII]
You are beautiful and hot
c. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well." [Macbeth]
c. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well." [Macbeth]
Once it ends and is over, we're better off.
d. "Who wooed in haste, and means to wed in leisure." [Taming of the Shrew]
Who would work hard for a while to earn free time
d. "Who wooed in haste, and means to wed in leisure." [Taming of the Shrew]
Who would work hard for a while to earn free time
3. How many creative Shakespearean insults can you come up with? Add "thou" or "thine" to the front of the lists picked up on your way in: "Thou+Column A+Column B+Column C!"
Post your BEST Shakespearean insult as a "comment" below.
Thou knavish lily-livered scullion
Thou wenching motley-minded remnant
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