{"id":513,"date":"2012-02-10T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T18:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=513"},"modified":"2021-05-24T16:19:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:19:49","slug":"scansion-hamlet-act-iii-scene-ii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=513","title":{"rendered":"Scansion:  Hamlet Act III, Scene ii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>HAMLET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(This text is featured in our <a title=\"John Douglas Thompson\" href=\"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=153\">interview with John Douglas Thompson<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Scansion-Hamlet-32.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Scansion-Hamlet-32<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional Notes<br>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assonance &#8211; the long e sound.<br>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line 59 is highly irregular &#8211; mid line ending.\u00a0 Funky meter &#8211; is it a bit of prose&#8230;or is it an aside?<br>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line 60 is irregular&#8230;<br>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line 62 mid line stop, mid foot (this happens a lot in this speech.) &#8211; still scans.<br>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line 63 why mistress &#8211; look it up?\u00a0 Lots of feminine endings and alliteration.<br>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line 74 &#8211; he backs off.\u00a0 New beat here\u00a0 starts with an irregularity after full stop &#8211; trochee.<br>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line 80 mid stop at explanation of Horatio&#8217;s task.\u00a0 Elision on occulted?<br>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line 82 &#8220;we&#8221; &#8211; repeats his rogue and peasant slave speech, but uses we not I.<br>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 what is depth of feeling between hamlet and horatio?<br>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 why this speech?\u00a0 no new information, except his feeling for horatio.<br>\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line 84 &#8220;vulcan&#8217;s stithy&#8221;\u00a0 nice solid metaphor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAMLET (This text is featured in our interview with John Douglas Thompson) Additional Notes&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assonance &#8211; the long e sound.\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line 59 is highly irregular &#8211; mid line ending.\u00a0 Funky meter &#8211; is it a bit of prose&#8230;or is it an aside?\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line 60 is irregular&#8230;\u25cf\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Line 62 mid line stop, mid foot (this happens<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=513' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-513","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-8h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7257,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/513\/revisions\/7257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}