Shakespeare wrote in verse because, in his day, it was a sign of literary excellence. In plays like 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,', the verse gives the play a sense of an unrealistic world. Using verse suggests a natural affinity between the people speaking, and also gives the impression of a predetermined script. Actors found it easier to memories lines in verse, as well.
However, he wrote in prose for some parts of the plays, because this gave the play a sense of informality.
All speech has rhythm, but the regular and measured rhythm of blank verse gives a sense of nobility which ordinary prose does not. Shakespeare in his later works made the verse more irregular and more approximate to the rhythm of natural speech, thus closing the gap between the diction of the aristocrats and that of the peons.
Consider the difference between these four passages, all of which mean the same, and all of which are in ordinary english.
Broken prose: "Sure. Ok. If you want. You want me to go, so Ok. I'll go, alright?"
Ordinary Prose: Very well, if you want me to go I'll go.
Blank Verse: I know that you want me to go and I / Will go if that is what you really want
Rhymed Verse: If you do ask that I should go away / I'll go though I would wish you ask me stay.
All kinds of characters speak in prose. The play Much Ado About Nothing is almost all in prose. Where some speak in prose and some in verse, the people of higher social status are more likely to speak in verse.
The dialogue in Shakespeare's plays is either in blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) or prose. When people speak in verse it sounds more profound, more serious, and more meaningful. But sometimes those were not qualities Shakespeare wanted in his dialogue. Sometimes he wanted people to sound flippant, or funny, or stupid, or banal, or distracted, or insane. For these purposes, he would put the dialogue in prose.
Not all of Shakespeare's plays are in verse: Much Ado About Nothing is mostly in prose. Verse provides a rhythm and stateliness to the language which can make it sound impressive. It is also easier to remember, a useful factor when actors sometimes had a couple of days to learn a new play. The earliest play in verse was Gorbudoc, which premiered two years before Shakespeare was born. There was a tradition of plays in verse and the audience would have been accustomed to that convention.
Prose never rhymes.
Poetry's stanzas' formation is chosen by the poet. Proses' stanzas go all the way to the margin.
Shakespeare writes in prose when the character speaking is either:
a) Lying
b) Joking
or c) Drunk
Yes, some of the characters in Shakespeare's plays speak in prose. The play Much Ado About Nothing is almost all in prose.
Dialogue for working class people was usually written in prose rather than in verse.
Shakespeare's diction was blank verse, rhyme and prose.
Prose equals silly, stupid, or mad. Blank Verse equals wise and serious. The Nurse is capable of both.
All of Shakespeare's plays are at least partly in blank verse. Only Much Ado about Nothing has more prose than verse.
No, a free verse poem does not rhyme and a prose is everyday words and sentences
Dialogue for working class people was usually written in prose rather than in verse.
Shakespeare's diction was blank verse, rhyme and prose.
Prose equals silly, stupid, or mad. Blank Verse equals wise and serious. The Nurse is capable of both.
All of Shakespeare's plays are at least partly in blank verse. Only Much Ado about Nothing has more prose than verse.
Bottom uses prose while Titania uses blank verse in William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Blank verse is often associated with the nobility or characters of higher social standing in Shakespeare's works, while prose is used for characters of lower status or for more casual speech.
Shakespeare's verse is in iambic pentameter, with five iambs to the line.
In Shakespeare, verse is usually used by important and serious characters, whereas the less important and comic characters use prose. This is not invariably the case (The play Much Ado About Nothing is almost all in prose) but usual.
Prose is free speech put into blank verse, and verse is verses in iambic perameter.
It is called prose.
No, a free verse poem does not rhyme and a prose is everyday words and sentences
You can always tell when Shakespeare is writing in verse. When he is writing in prose, the paragraphs look like this, with the sentences wrapped around to the next line without a capital. Paragraphs of prose look like big blocks of text. The situation differs much with blank Verse which is written in this way. All lines start in a capital but that Does not mean every sentence is a line. Some sentences in Shakespeare's verse Do not end where the lines end. This can be Another sign the lines are all in verse.
Shakespeare had most of his characters speak in blank verse. He went into prose when the characters were of a lower class, or where the character is comic. For example, the Porter in Macbeth speaks in prose, when the rest speak in verse. The witches have a tendency to rhyme as well.