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Shakespearean Language (Helpful Techniques (Use those acting muscles. Try…
Shakespearean Language
Slang Usage
There are a lot of words that don't entirely make sense to us when Shakespeare uses them. This is because he uses a lot of slang, but the slang used was the slang from the late 1500s. Whatever it is, it probably was really funny to his audience back then.
Oftentimes, if a word is used as slang that has a different meaning today, the intended meaning will appear on the left page.
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Helpful Techniques
Use those acting muscles. Try speaking different characters' lines in different voices. If anything, you'll gain useful voice acting skills that you can use when your nerd friend convinces you to play Dungeons and Dragons.
Don't try to take it in all at once. Slow down, and break it up into pieces and summarize each part after reading it.
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Sometimes there are a lot of characters. when a new one is introduced, make a note of their connections to other characters. Make a character family tree.
Verse vs Prose
Verse is what more sophisticated people spoke in Elizabethan England. It consists of speaking at a specific rhythym
Pay attention to which characters use prose and verse, it matters. Especially when a character switches from one to the other.
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Prose is what peasants spoke in, it is just normal speech.
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