1. SHAKESPEREAN LANGUAGE
Decoding its meaning

2. Believe it or not, the placement of subject/verb/object DOES count!
THE DOG BIT THE BOY!
THE BOY BIT THE DOG!

3. Hear you nothing that I say?”
Do you hear nothing that I say?
“Help you I can, yes!”
Yes, I can help you.
“Stay and help you I will”
I will stay and help you.

4. SHAKESPEARE’S TECHNIQUES
VERB BEFORE SUBJECT
OBJECT BEFORE SUBJECT AND VERB
INSERTING EXTRA PHRASES BETWEEN SUBJECT AND VERB
OMMITING WORDS

5. Why do poets mess with placement?
RHYTHM
TO EMPHASIZE CERTAIN WORDS
TO REVEAL CHARACTER

6. VERB BEFORE SUBJECT HE GOES  GOES HE. Shakespearean Language:
“In the instant came/the fiery Tybalt.”
Translation: The fiery Tybalt came in an instant.
“At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s sups the fair Rosaline.”
Rosaline sups at Capulet’s feast

7. OBJECT BEFORE SUBJECT AND VERB
I HIT HIM
HIT I HIM.
Shakespearean Language: “ME THEY SHALL HIT.”
Translation:
THEY SHALL HIT ME.
“OF HONORABLE
RECKONING ARE YOU
BOTH.”
YOU ARE BOTH OF HONORABLE RECKONING.

8. INSERTING EXTRA PHRASES BETWEEN SUBJECT AND VERB
Shakespearean Language:
“AND SHE WAS WEANED (I NEVER SHALL FORGET IT) /OF ALL THE DAY OF THE YEAR, UPON THAT DAY.”
Translation:
AND SHE WAS WEANED UPON THAT DAY.
“THREE CIVIL BRAWLS BRED OF AN AIRY WORD BY THEE OLD CAPULET AND MONTAGUE, HAVE THRICE DISTURBED TH QUIET OF OUR STREET.”
THREE CIVIL BRAWLS HAVE DISTURBED OUT STREETS.

9. OMMITING WORDS MISSING “WERE YOU BY?” FILL IN THE BLANKS…
HEARD FROM HIM YET?
MISSING
“WERE YOU BY?”
FILL IN THE BLANKS…
WERE YOU NEARBY?

10. COMMON WORDS Shakespearean Language: AN Translation: IF MARRY INDEED
KINSMAN
COUSIN
ALWAYS
STILL

11. “LOVE ME DO”
LOVE, LOVE ME DO, YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU, I'LL ALWAYS BE TRUE, SO PLEASE LOVE ME DO, WOH, LOVE ME DO… SOMEONE TO LOVE, SOMEBODY NEW. SOMEONE TO LOVE, SOMEONE LIKE YOU.

12. ELANOR RIGBY ELEANOR RIGBY, DIED IN THE CHURCH AND WAS BURIED
ALONG WITH HER NAME. NOBODY CAME. FATHER McKenzie, WIPING THE DIRT FROM HIS HANDS
AS HE WALKS FROM THE GRAVE, NO ONE WAS SAVED.