Shakespeare's sonnets

Shakespeare's sonnets

He wrote 154 sonnets in decasyllables pubblished in 1609 that didn't have a title and they were probably written in 1590. These sonnets had three quatrains and a final couplet, this is called 4442 structure (the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG) and they had a turning point (punto di svolta) at the 9th line or at the beginning of the couplet. His sonnets were not chronological and had an addressee including:
-a fair youth, (un bel giovane), probably the Earl of Southampton;
-the time;
-a dark lady that she is physically unattractive and the poet finds her irresistibly desirable.
Themes (death, time, love, beauty,art)
the themes of his sonnets are the reversal (rovescio) of the traditional themes of love sonnets.

Style

The style of Shakespeare's sonnets has:
-rich and vivid descriptive language;
-absence of classical references;
-dramatic quality through the abrupt (improvviso) beginning;
- use of questions or the pronouns ‘thou’ for insulting and ‘thee’ (“tu”) for conversational style and respect.
He used unrhymed lines (versi che non rimano) with an arrangement of unstressed and stressed syllables (accentate e non accentate) known as Blank verse (this name derives from the “unrhymed” lines) iambic pentameter.
The verse is generally used by aristocratic characters and in serious or dramatic scenes.
The prose is generally used by lower-class characters, in comic scenes and in informal conversations.
Shakespeare use as rhetorical figure imagery, metaphors and similes, personification, antithesis, hyperbole.
Shakespeare used two types of irony:
-verbal irony, when he saying one thing but meaning another;
-dramatic irony, when one line or scene contrasts with another.
Schakespear used:
-you for be aggressive or insulting and to address someone of higher social rank.
-thee to respect a superior and courtesy to a social equal.

Comedies

We can write about his main comedies wrote during his Life, in fact he was and able writers of all time in the Place of the Britain. Only half of his plays were printed(stampate) and it is difficult to date them, his writings refer to identifiable events and the style brings about changes. Shakespeare's plays include(temi): frustrated loves, romantic misunderstandings, disguise, and ending in multiple marriages.
There Is the passage of young people out of their parents' control and get married (Romeo and Juliet)

Tragedies

His most important works of all the time and during his life of worker are the Classic tragedies in Greek and Latin:
the protagonist we can Say that he acts against an inexorable fate. The action is limited to one place in one day. The turning point is when the protagonist seem he has the goals at hand. The tragedies of shakespeare:
Humans are in control of their own destiny.
There are more places and more days.
The hero is responsible for his own downfall(caduta) although(sebbene) his plan was noble.