ENGL 4148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Blank Verse, Petruchio, Trochee
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Used to have perfect lines in iambic pentameter; now pays more attention to the sentence itself. 1 ft = 2 syllables iamb unstressed, stressed trochee stressed, unstressed. Things rhyme that we do not think rhyme. Othello moves from verse to prose radical shift might suggest emotion. A play about the importance of framing. Katherine did not continue protesting her wedding day might not have hated it as much as she seemed to. Katherine seems more subdued in this act. She is embarrassed, and maybe she really likes petruccio. Baptista talks as if katherine isn"t there. He is concerned about how they look. Saying she is being forced into the marriage anyway. Kate is finally being seen as the victim. She"s linguistically wed before they are actually wed important. Petruccio rides in on diseased donkey, poorly dressed with poorly dressed grumio, leaves early.
