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Everything you want to learn about Shakespearian pronouns

Everything you want to learn about Shakespearian pronouns. Replaces a noun “ It, clearly a pronoun meant to refer to an idea previously expressed, is often used by students to refer to an idea still in their heads.” Joyce Armstrong Carroll and Edward E. Wilson, Acts of Teaching. Type.

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Everything you want to learn about Shakespearian pronouns

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  1. Everything you want to learn about Shakespearian pronouns

  2. Replaces a noun “It, clearly a pronoun meant to refer to an idea previously expressed, is often used by students to refer to an idea still in their heads.” Joyce Armstrong Carroll and Edward E. Wilson, Acts of Teaching

  3. Type S. Pronoun E. Pronoun Example Subjective Thou You “Thou are so far before,” Objective Thee You “To make thee full of growing.” Possessive Thy My “Thy personal venture in the rebels’ fight, Possessive Thine Mine “Where is thine sword?”

  4. Pronouns set the tone of a piece and establishes point of view. The types of points of view: First Person: (I, we voice) vs. Third Person: (he, she it voice)‏ When dialogue is used, a character is using their voice to convey their opinions so they use the I and we voice. When we read a summery of a play, the narrator is using a he, she, it voice to convey the opinions of the characters.

  5. First Person: “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” Macbeth, Act II, scene I Third Person: “In her eyes, all that stood between Macbeth and his ambitons were his moral scruples-or his cowardice, as she saw it.” Stories from Shakespeare Geraldine McCaughrean

  6. Jeff Anderson. Mechanically Inclined. Stenhouse Publishers: 2005 Herschel Baker. Ed. The Riverside Shakespeare 2nd Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company:1997 Geraldine McCaughrean. Stories from Shakespeare. Margaret K. McElderry Books:1995

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