The playwright's choices in Shakespeare

What this note covers

1. Writing about plays: audience, stage and script
2. Soliloquy, aside and dramatic irony
3. Verse, prose and the music of speech
4. Imagery and motif in the plays
5. The shape of tragedy and the shape of comedy
6. Stagecraft: props, costume and stage pictures
7. Model paragraph on a play

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