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All 2803 lines in Shakespeare's Richard II are written in verse, with no prose passages at all. That makes it the longer of only two verse-only plays in Shakespeare's complete works—the other being King John.
- Which Shakespeare plays are written entirely in verse?
- Which one of Shakespeare's plays is the longest?
- What is verse Shakespeare?
- Are most of Shakespeare's plays written in blank verse?
Which Shakespeare plays are written entirely in verse?
But while no play is composed entirely of prose, five plays are written exclusively in verse. All five are history plays, written relatively early in his career: Henry VI, Part I; Henry VI, Part III; King John; Edward III; and Richard II. The play with most prose - 87% - is The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Which one of Shakespeare's plays is the longest?
The longest play is Hamlet, which is the only Shakespeare play with more than thirty thousand words, and the shortest is The Comedy of Errors, which is the only play with fewer than fifteen thousand words. Shakespeare's 37 plays have an average word count of 22.6 thousand words per play.
What is verse Shakespeare?
Verse in Shakespeare refers to all the lines of a play that follow a specific pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. This pattern creates a metrical rhythm when the lines are spoken aloud. Shakespeare most often wrote in blank verse – blank meaning that it doesn't rhyme – arranged in iambic pentameter.
Are most of Shakespeare's plays written in blank verse?
Most of Shakespeare's plays focused on these characters. The verse form he uses is blank verse. It contains no rhyme, but each line has an internal rhythm with a regular rhythmic pattern. The pattern most favored by Shakespeare is iambic pentameter.
