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In line 13, the term "lie with" also furthers Atkins's argument for an elaborate pun, declaring that the speaker lies with the mistress rather than to her. [36] Also in lines 11 and 12, much is debated over the beginning "O" of line 11. Moore interprets this interjection as impatience or sarcasm, possibly a "reason or excuse hastily tossed off."
Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter with clever use of puns and imagery. In practice, this meant that his verse was usually unrhymed and consisted of ten syllables to a line, spoken with a stress on every second syllable. The blank verse of his early plays is quite different from that of his later ones.
Stephen Booth notes "Sonnets 135 and 136 are festivals of verbal ingenuity in which much of the fun derives from the grotesque lengths the speaker goes to for a maximum number and concentration of puns on will." [3] He notes the following meanings used in these two sonnets: [4] (a) what one wishes to have or do
Hulme explains this by describing how her research findings showed no relation or "tolerable pun" between the end-part of the verb of 'hate' (having a specific t sound) and Hathaway (ending in th). Hulme addresses her colloquial devil theory in Sonnet 145 which speak about the flight the word ‘hate’ takes by traveling from night to day, or ...
Don Pedro's last line can be understood to mean 'Pay attention to your music and nothing else!' The complex layers of meaning include a pun on 'crotchets', which can mean both 'quarter notes' (in music) and whimsical notions. The following are puns on notes as messages: (2.1.174–176), Claudio: I pray you leave me.
Othello, a General in the Venetian army, promotes a young officer, Michael Cassio, enraging Iago—the General's ensign—who expected the post himself. Outwardly loyal to Othello and his recently married wife, Desdemona, Iago proceeds to cause dissension within Othello's camp (for instance, tuning Othello's new father-in-law against him, and causing Cassio to fight another officer).
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Othello and Desdemona in Venice by Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856) The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, often shortened to Othello (/ ɒ ˈ θ ɛ l oʊ /), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603.