Shakespeare A to Z | Prose Technique
Although Shakespeare wrote his plays mainly in verse, fully onefourth of his dramatic output is prose. The proportion of prose in individual plays varies greatly, but nearly all of the later ones contain a significant amount. In his early histories—among the first of his dramatic works—there is no prose at all (King John, Richard II, and Henry VI, Part 1 and Part 3) or very little (the dialogue between two murderers in Richard III, I.iv). But as Shakespeare’s style developed, his use of prose as an alternative to verse became more significant, varied, and...
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