Essays to aid in the understanding Elizabethan drama.

Introduction: Why Read Elizabethan Drama?

I. Conventions of Elizabethan Drama
II. Understanding Iambic Pentameter
III. “You” vs. “Thee”
IV. Elements, Humours and Spheres: Cosmology in Elizabethan Drama
V. Verse vs. Prose
VI. Metaphors
VII. Vows, Oaths and Swears
VIII. Rhyming