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It was a kind of tradition. Blank verse had been used in the old tragedy Gorbaduc, and became established as the rhythm for noble and portentous speech, and as such was used in many other succeeding plays. Marlowe, in particular, had made terrific use of it, making it enormously popular at just the time that Shakespeare was starting out. Greene said of him in 1592 that he could "bombast out a blank verse as the best of you" showing that everyone else was using this verse form at the time.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 11y ago(1) Because that was how you did things in his day. Audiences expected verse. (Kind of like audiences today expect action heroes to be wise-cracking -- making those little tough-guy jokes. Someone in 100 years might ask: why do all the action heroes in 21st century movies make all those jokes?)
(2) To help the actors memorize his lines quickly -- our records of Shakespeare's troupe (as well as his own accounts of acting troupes in Hamlet and Midsummer Night's Dream suggests that actors were expected to learn heaps of lines really quickly ...)
(3) Remember -- there wasn't a lot of literacy or a lot of books in Shakespeare's day. (For instance, his plays weren't printed until after he died -- actors worked from handwritten scripts -- and often might simply learn their lines by listening to another actor perform. So it was important that you'd have something [like rhythm and regular syllable counts] to help with the task of memorizing).
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∙ 14y agoBlank verse is verse in usually unrhymed iambic petameter.
"I often think the world would have less grief
If people studied Shakespeare in their youth."
is two lines of blank verse. Blank verse mimics rhythms natural in spoken English.
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∙ 13y agoUnrhymed iambic pentameter is blank verse.
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∙ 12y agoThe majority of the lines in Shakespeare's plays are in blank verse. The only play which is more prose than verse is Much Ado About Nothing.
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What was Shakespeare's blank verse composed in?
Shakespeare's blank verse was composed in blank verse, which is to say unrhymed iambic pentameter. Unless you want to know where he did his writing to which question nobody knows the answer.
Where does shakespeare use blank verse in the Tragedy of Julius Caesar?
In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, how often does Shakespeare use blank verse
What is the verse called that Shakespeare wrote in?
Shakespeare wrote a lot in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Which type of poetry did shakespeare often use in his plays?
Shakespeare and his contemporaries often used blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) for the dialogue in their plays.
How many syllables does Shakespeare blank verse have in one line?
All blank verse has ten syllables per line.
What was Shakespeare's blank verse composed in?
Shakespeare's blank verse was composed in blank verse, which is to say unrhymed iambic pentameter. Unless you want to know where he did his writing to which question nobody knows the answer.
Where does shakespeare use blank verse in the Tragedy of Julius Caesar?
In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, how often does Shakespeare use blank verse
What did William Shakespeare write in?
Shakespeare wrote in ink. Shakespeare wrote in the Elizabethan Era. Shakespeare wrote in London, England. Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English Shakespeare wrote in blank verse
What is the verse called that Shakespeare wrote in?
Shakespeare wrote a lot in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Which type of poetry did shakespeare often use in his plays?
Shakespeare and his contemporaries often used blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) for the dialogue in their plays.
How many syllables does Shakespeare blank verse have in one line?
All blank verse has ten syllables per line.
What is the name of the verse that Shakespeare wrote in?
Shakespeare wrote a lot of dialogue in his plays in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What verse did Shakespeare write his plays in?
Iambic Pentamer . A literary form based on the number 5. (all"s well that ends well) is a stellar example. Ideally lines had five words. correction Iambic Pentameter-sounds like a camera, does it not? Stop messing with the answers, which one is right?
What style of writing did shakespeare use in his plays?
blank verse
What is Shakespeare's verse?
When we talk about Shakespeare writing in verse, we usually mean blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare also wrote poetry in rhyme, both in his plays and in his poems.
Shakespeare was the first to use blank verse?
No; while Shakespeare wrote many of his plays in the form of blank verse, using unrhymed iambic pentameter, he was not the first to use this form. The first appearance of blank verse appeared in Henry Howard's Æneid, and Christopher Marlowe was the one who brought rise to the blank verse in Elizabethan English literature.
Does Shakespeare's use of blank verse restrict his ability to present a variety of characters?
No, as witness the astounding variety of characters he created. If blank verse did not suit the character, Shakespeare just didn't use it.
