Reference no: EM132362548 , Length: word count : 1200
Instructions
1. Choose one of the dramatic extracts provided below. Briefly situate it within the dramatic action of the play from which it's taken (i.e. at what point in the play does this speech or passage of dialogue occur? What happens immediately afterwards?).
2. Focusing on whatever aspects of the dramatic language you find to be most significant, discuss how they assist in:
a) characterizing the speaker/s, and/or
b) reinforcing the play's key themes, and/or
c) conveying information about the physical setting of the scene
How is what a character is feeling, or what they want the audience to feel, created not just by what they say but how they say it? How does the form of the dramatic language help to convey its content? How do words ‘set the scene' in the early modern theatre? These are the key questions you're being asked to consider in this assignment.
Aspects of language that you choose to consider might include, but are not limited to:
• Verse and metre (What kind of verse is this? Does it rhyme? Does it scan regularly or irregularly?)
• Rhetorical figures (Does the extract feature similes, metaphors, alliteration, repetition etc? Make use of the handout on rhetoric from the Henry V module to identify more figures.)
• Grammatical construction (To what extent does the speaker use questions/imperatives/parenthetical phrases? Is their ordering of words unusual or otherwise worth remarking on?)
• Embedded stage directions (Does the language provide any clues as to what actions accompany the speakers' words, or to the scene's physical setting?)
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