Lecture 19 Shakespeare

Question 1

What was the first folio

Answer 1

Published in 1623, helped legitimatize the publication of plays

Question 2

How many quatrains are found In a Shakespeare sonnet?

Answer 2

3

Question 3

Four categories of Shakespeare’s plays

Answer 3

Tragedies-hero of noble birth whose tragic flaw leads to his demise

Comedies- happy endings, marriage of unmarried characters, mistaken identities, frequent use of Puns

Histories

Romances- darker tone, magical, fantastical elements, often considered tragicomedies

Question 4

Where was Shakespeare born

Answer 4

Stratford-Upon-Avon

Question 5

Define blank verse

Answer 5

Unrhymed verse, most commonly associated with english plays and poetry

Question 6

Difference between feminine endings and masculine endings

Answer 6

Feminine endings- an extra UN-STRESSED syllable at the end of a line In a blank verse

Masculine- an extra STRESSED syllable at the end of a line blank verse

Question 7

Define Scansion

Answer 7

Marking the stressed syllables in the text

Question 8

Define iambic pentameter

Answer 8

Line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short(unstressed) syllable followed by one long (stressed) syllable