1. Shakespearean Drama
English

2. Three Classifications of Shakespearean Drama:
COMEDY
HISTORY
TRAGEDY

3. TRAGIC HERO Qualities of a Tragic Hero:
Possesses high importance or rank
Exhibits extraordinary talents
Displays a tragic flaw—an error in judgment or defect in character—that leads to downfall
Faces downfall with courage and dignity

4. BLANK VERSE
Verse Dramas
Blank Verse
Iambic Pentameter

5. Act One, Scene 2, Lines
Let me’ have men’ about’ me that’ are fat’
Sleek’-headed men’, and such’ as sleep’ o nights,’
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.

6. SOLILOQUY AND ASIDE
Long speech given by a character while alone on stage to reveal his or her private thoughts or intentions
Character’s quiet remark to the audience or another character that no one else on stage is supposed to hear

7. SOLILOQUY OR ASIDE? Trebonius: Caesar, I will. And so near will I be
That your best friends shall wish I had been further.
--Act Two, Scene 2, Lines

8. RHETORICAL DEVICES Make speech more convincing and memorable?
Repetition
Parallelism
Rhetorical Questions

9. Rhetorical Device? And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?
--I, i, L50-51
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
--III, ii, L22-23

10. DRAMATIC IRONY Irony—contrast between appearance and reality
Dramatic Irony—the audience or reader knows something the character(s) does not know