TDR 3560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ideal Class Group, Gravedigger, Irony
6 Mar 2018
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Slang exists in the space and can be physicalized by the actors. Speeches in the scripts have their own climactic plot and builds to an idea. Formal versus informal language and what emotions they convey. Punctuation helps indicate breathing, pauses, paces and helps actors understand how to deliver it. He speaks less formally which means he is probably of a lower class. Hamlet is talking to someone outside the court, so he does not have to speak formally in verse. Talking to someone outside the court for hamlet is: The rhythm is faster, but slows down with hamlet"s alas, poor yorick speech and makes the tone more somber. The gravedigger is talking about hamlet without knowing it"s him (which is a bit of dramatic irony) Witty things like tanner , whoreson , as well as a a sarcastic and dry with play. Hamlet has a normal conversation with a gravedigger, but is also talking to a skull.
