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SHAKESPEARE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - What role does love play?
    - - How is jealousy portrayed?
    - - Can the play be racist with a black actor playing Iago?
    - - Is there an obvious villain/hero?
    - - How is Iago deceptive/manipulative?
- - - - three quatrains and a couplet, same rhyme scheme, iambic pentameter
      - the poet argues that procreation is a “mightier way” than poetry for the young man to stay alive, since the poet’s pen cannot present him as a living being.
  - - - Iambic pentameter
      - three quatrains and a couplet
      - ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
      - Compares the young man to a summer's day, but notes that the young man has qualities that far surpass the summer's day
  - - - A joke on conventional love poetry
      - Other poems made idealising comparisons, and were these taken literally, would be completely ridiculous
  - - - three quatrains and a couplet, same rhyme scheme, iambic pentameter
      - pun on the words "lie" and "lie"
- - - - Tragedy involves a protagonist of high estate ("better than we") who falls from prosperity to misery as a result of a "tragic flaw” - generally an error caused by human frailty
      - Aside from this initial moral weakness or error, the protagonist is basically a good person. For Aristotle, the downfall of an evil protagonist is not tragic (Macbeth might not qualify !!!).
  - - - In their structure, romances are most like comedies in that they begin with a problem or disorder and end in harmony and marriage. The plays usually involve couples and journeys or romantic fulfillment. This is, however, where the similarities end. Romances have darkly tragic overtones that pervade the plot. In The Tempest , for example, a group of people are stranded on a mysterious island ruled by a powerful wizard named Prospero
      - Romances usually incorporate magic and mystical encounters in faraway, strange lands. As a result, loss and recovery, separation and reunion are dominant themes in the romances
- - - - The dark lady, with whom Shakespeare has a complicated relationship, is NOT his wife Anne Hathaway,