Shakespeare: The Word and the Action

Shakespeare's Wavelengths (1x1)

: 01, 1995

Shakespeare's wavelengths are conventions of speech and action that he used to construct his plays. The first lecture focuses on speech: words and their arrangement. Examples of prose, blank verse, and rhymed verse are drawn from Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The lecture shows how poetic meter and its variations may relate to the subject matter of a given speech or scene or to the feelings expressed by a character.