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What is prose, and how is it different to poetry? The short answer is that prose is the form of writing that I’m using now, and the form we most commonly use in speech with each other. Prose is the term for any sustained wodge of text that doesn’t have a consistent rhythm.
Quick answer: To distinguish between verse and prose in Shakespeare's plays, observe the text's structure. Verse lines are uneven and exhibit a rhythmic pattern, often iambic pentameter, while...
Shakespeare preferred to use verse when he was tackling serious themes, and prose when he was writing comedy, so in Hamlet he switches often, sometimes in the middle of a scene. Hamlet’s frequent switching between verse and prose is part of what makes the style of the play feel evasive.
Prose and verse interlink, interlock, and interinanimate each other so often and so densely in Shakespeare's comedies that it seems useful to explore at least briefly some of the points of ...
Shakespeare’s As You Like It is made up of two distinct forms of dialogue: prose and verse. Shakespeare’s verse is rhythmic and poetic, while his prose is simple and does not have a distinct beat. ...
includes a number of shifts between verse and prose in key scenes. A quick search on Google shows that many scholars and teachers of Shakespeare adhere to the idea that high status characters speak in verse while low status characters speak in prose.
Shakespeare's prose is as masterly as his verse, and often even more dense with meaning (check the footnotes of a passage of prose, and see if there are fewer than for verse). Prose is the vehicle for many of Shakespeare's wittiest characters: Falstaff, Beatrice, Rosalind, the Porter in Macbeth, Autolycus in The Winter's Tale, and many others.
