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William Shakespeare's play: generals features - Coggle Diagram
William Shakespeare's play: generals features
Evolving scenes
The progress of his play is linked to the gradual clarification of things.
The themes are hinted.
The opinions are formed
and in the following scenes became important.
There is a contrast between scenes with many characters and scenes with few.
Major scenes are preceded and followed by shorted scenes,
whose function is informative.
Shakespeare sometimes leaves questions open so that that we continue to reflect.
Structure
Shakespeare didn't importance to:
the time;
the place;
The play was flexible
the division in acts
A scene ended when the characters left the stage.
Stage directions
Most stage directions were added by the editors.
The directions and the descriptions are given indirectly.
In a question or a metaphor.
Characters
Shakespreare didn't take the characters from one social class
The hierarchy forms the background of every play.
Most important is the family ties.
Because the contrasts between the members of family present the thoughts of the society.
Variety of style
Shakespeare used different levels of speech and actions.
To portray his characters from different angles.
Sometimes are entered allegorical scenes, songs, music and dances.
Imagery
His language is characterised by a wide variety of rhetorical figures
Some plays have characteristic image motifs.
These image-clusters are connected to the main themes.
He used a variety in the verse structure.