This document discusses key elements of Shakespearean drama, including its classification into three categories: comedy, history, and tragedy. It defines the qualities of a tragic hero and provides examples of blank verse, soliloquy, aside, and rhetorical devices from Shakespeare's plays. The document examines excerpts to determine if they are examples of soliloquy/aside or rhetorical devices, and defines dramatic irony.

1. Shakespearean
Drama

2. Three Classifications of
Shakespearean Drama:
COMEDY
HISTORY
TRAGEDY

3. TRAGIC HERO
Qualities of a Tragic Hero:
Possesses high importance or rank
Exhibits extraordinary talents
Displays a tragic flaw—an error in
judgment or defect in character—that leads
to downfall
Faces downfall with courage and dignity

4. BLANK VERSE
Verse Dramas
Blank Verse
Iambic Pentameter

5. Act One, Scene 2, Lines 192-
195
Let me’ have men’ about’ me that’ are fat’
Sleek’-headed men’, and such’ as sleep’ o
nights,’
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.

6. SOLILOQUY AND ASIDE
Long speech given by a character while
alone on stage to reveal his or her private
thoughts or intentions
Character’s quiet remark to the audience or
another character that no one else on stage
is supposed to hear

7. SOLILOQUY OR ASIDE?
Trebonius: Caesar, I will. And so near will I
be
That your best friends shall wish I had been
further.
--Act Two, Scene 2, Lines 124-
125

8. RHETORICAL DEVICES
Make speech more convincing and
memorable
Repetition
Parallelism
Rhetorical Questions
?

9. Rhetorical Device?
And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?
--I, i, L50-51
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved
Rome more.
--III, ii, L22-23

10. DRAMATIC IRONY
Irony—contrast between appearance and
reality
Dramatic Irony—the audience or reader
knows something the character(s) does not
know