Techniques

Question 1

Verse and Prose

Answer 1

• As his wits desert him, Lear shifts from verse to prose and back again, signifying the disruption in his mind.
• Verse is Poetic, emotional and formal (iambic pentameter)
• Prose is everyday, logical and used for servents
• modern audiences may feel verse is dramatic and insincere, jacobean thought the opposite
• Prose is used to show madness

Question 2

Edmund Malcontent?

Answer 2

A character who is disconnected and dissatisfied with society and dissaproves of social/political structure.
however they’re often self aware, and commment on the action to the audience, which edmund does not.