Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 17 AIL 1613 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Verse Drama
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The idea
The commercial theatre of the period wrote in blank verse, which unit six defined as unrhymed iambic pentameter. Marlowe and Shakespeare both used it, and units thirteen and fourteen worked scenes from each. The band's drama and its poetry are the same material.
In practice
The plays are poems as well.
Where people slip
Drama and poetry overlap here.
Your place on the trail
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