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I watched some performances of midsummer nights dream on utube sort of expecting to hear this meter, but instead the actors seem to only adhere to the periods and commas in the text. The rest of the vatiation seems to just depend on the actor.
I was told that one of the reasons for iambic pentameter was that it approximates the average length of an (elizabethan) sentence, (?) but if the actors only adhere to periods and commas during the performance, then the sentences are a lot longer than 10 syllables, arent they? I know this isn't physics, but if someone could explain this would be awesome,;/..thanks someone
I was told that one of the reasons for iambic pentameter was that it approximates the average length of an (elizabethan) sentence, (?) but if the actors only adhere to periods and commas during the performance, then the sentences are a lot longer than 10 syllables, arent they? I know this isn't physics, but if someone could explain this would be awesome,;/..thanks someone