definition we want here is an elaborate literary play on words or images. Think of John Donne. Think also of a pun or <i>double-entendre</i> that is extended across several lines or verses.<br>
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Shana: Edmund would be seen differently today, more people would be sympathetic, understanding of his anger..
- Edmund as a bastard: still today (in Korean culture as well), bastards are perceived .. “unceremoniously” -
VOCAB
*jovial - good natured, jokes a lot, laughs easily
*conceit - egotist; elizabethan - play on words
*aside - stage direction
*durst - to dare
*to want - to lack
*be it - whether ~
*how now - “what’s up,” “how are you”
*beseech - plead, beg
*to essay - try
*fain - gladly, happily
*it is meet to do that - appropriate, agreeable, fitting
*to portend - foreshadow
*sirrah - mister, sir
*choler - anger (one of the four “humors”: sanguine, choleric..)
*abound - abundant
*entreaty - request, plead
*forbear - refrain, “don’t!”
*pray - please (prithee)
*soft - wait, hold on, be quiet
*hie - go away
*anon - soon
*credulous - (trust, believe) trustfulWRITING
*economy: not wasting words
- “there are lots of hyperboles in…”
- “hyperboles abound in…” : better -
- Shana: Edmund would be seen differently today, more people would be sympathetic, understanding of his anger..
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how now - “what’s up,” “how are you”
*beseech - plead, beg
*to essay - try
*fain - gladly, happily
*it is meet to do that - appropriate, agreeable, fitting
*to portend - foreshadow
*sirrah - mister, sir
*choler - anger (one of the four “humors”: sanguine, choleric..)
*abound - abundant
*entreaty - request, plead
*forbear - refrain, “don’t!”
*pray - please (prithee)
*soft - wait, hold on, be quiet
*hie - go away
*anon - soon
*credulous - (trust, believe) trustfulWRITING
*economy: not wasting words
- “there are lots of hyperboles in…”
- “hyperboles abound in…” : better -
be it - whether ~
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to want - to lack
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