Prose

//PROSE//
> Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing > //Copper Sun// > //Titus Andronicus// > //Copper Sun, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus// > This type of writing was used in Elizabethan age writings such as //Titus Andronicus// and //Romeo and Juliet// as a sign of unintelligence in a speaker. > In the first scene of //Romeo and Juliet// they use prose for the minor characters that are lower and middle class, like criminals, pages, servants and soldiers. > > Abraham: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? > Samson: No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir. > Gregory: Do you quarrel, sir? > Abraham: Quarrel, sir? No, sir. > Samson: But if you do sir, I am for you. I serve as good a man as you. > Abraham: No better. > Samson: Yes, better, sir. > Abraham: You lie. > Samson: Draw, if you be men. > > But when Benvolio and Tybalt come in, two higher class and more important characters, their parts aren't written in prose. > > //Enter Benvolio// > Benvolio: Part fools! / Put your swords. You know not what you do. > //Enter Tybalt// > Tybalt: What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? / Turn thee, Benvolio, Look upon thy death. > Benvolio: I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, / Or manage it to part these men with me. (1.1.44-69)
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