The State of Shakespeare

David Hammond


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Henry V: PrologueChorusMay 31, 2018
Like a great Jazz Musician, Shakespeare uses Iambic pentameter as the underlying time signature to his rhetorical flourishes.  David Hammond explores this and many other ways of approaching the first playwright to give his characters language that pursues objective actions.
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