Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard by Ben Crystal

Author:Ben Crystal [Crystal, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781848314771
Amazon: B009DGM2OO
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2012-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

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Verse or prose?

Carrying on the idea that Shakespeare used verse to make his kings sound kingly, it’s not surprising that the only plays he wrote entirely in verse are about kings:

King Edward III

King John

Richard II

Both sequels to King Henry VI are almost entirely written in verse, and Titus Andronicus, Richard III and Henry VIII also come close to being prose-less.

At the other end of the spectrum, none of his surviving plays is written entirely in prose.

The Merry Wives of Windsor has the greatest amount of prose, at 87 per cent, with Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night next in line – but even 38 per cent of Twelfth Night is verse.

Verse seemed to bake Shakespeare’s (and, it would seem, his audience’s) cake more than prose …

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