ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Enjambment, Blank Verse, Alliteration

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 100
• Professor: Christopher J Fanning

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5 syllables (stressed then unstressed: end stopped lines vs enjambed lines. Soliloquy: character alone on stage speaking their innermost thoughts, performance, the world on the stage interacting with the world off the stage (the audience) Aside (act 1 scene 3: queen elizabeth making side comments on the events. Clarence brother of king richard has been arrested. Clarence explains that he was arrested because king edward learned that someone (cid:449)hose (cid:374)a(cid:373)e starts (cid:449)ith the letter (cid:862)g(cid:863) (cid:449)ill o(cid:448)erthro(cid:449) hi(cid:373) a(cid:374)d his fa(cid:373)il(cid:455) Clarence = george, duke of clarence (suspect) Richard sees this as queen elizabeth and other women plotting against him. King edward iv is sick and dying. Richard decides that he will have edward kill clarence so that once edward dies, richard will become king. Decides that he will also marry lady anne ed(cid:449)ard"s (cid:449)ife daughter in law of henry iv who was killed by richard. Pun + metaphor in line 2 (sun of york)