Please answer the following questions in your own blog:
1. What is "blank verse"? Give an example of it from your book.
A blank verse is an unrhymed verse but it does follow the pattern of iambic pentameter ("But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?")
2. Interpret these Shakespearean lines using your Shakespeare Packet: Reading Shakespeare's English:
a. "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" [R&J] But wait! What time is it?
b. "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." [Sonnets XVIII] You are beautiful and good looking.
c. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well." [Macbeth] If it were done then it would be fine.
d. "Who wooed in haste, and means to wed in leisure." [Taming of the Shrew] He fell in love quickly and married her calmly.
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!"
a. "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" [R&J] But wait! What time is it?
b. "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." [Sonnets XVIII] You are beautiful and good looking.
c. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well." [Macbeth] If it were done then it would be fine.
d. "Who wooed in haste, and means to wed in leisure." [Taming of the Shrew] He fell in love quickly and married her calmly.
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!"
Thou greasy sour-faced cut purse
Thou grizzled rump-fed dogfish
Thou saucy onion-eyed waterfly
Thou yeasty bunch-backed younker
Thou rank horn-mad hedge-pig
Thou queasy mad-bred malkin
Post your BEST Shakespearean insult as a "comment" below.
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