ENGL 105A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Verse Drama And Dramatic Verse, Antistrophe, Egeus
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Workmen"s ethic is fundamentally realistic (they actually represent the moon, etc. ) Realism is a term that we use when the conventions that are constructed become transparent (you no longer see the rules) What rules give you is the potential for expression. Earliest greek drama consisted of verse and music (gave you a range of expression) having a play in verse (change from syllabics, to rhyme, no rhyme, adds to potential of expression) Shakespeare rhetorical culture is still incorporating its old culture (the merchant of venice) Brevity (as brief, as tight as it can be) Shakespeare"s plays come from a rhetorical view. Rhetorical model (think of language as a form of action; doing something) Purpose: move the hearer (affect the hearer) The good speaker (mastered the arts of language) Arts of language are rhetoric and logic. Much of education was in latin (translating latin to english, and taking english- latin cicero and translating it back to latin.
