Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night: Style 1 key example

New! Understand every line of Twelfth Night.
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Key Examples in Twelfth Night

Act 5, scene 1
Explanation and Analysis:

In most Shakespeare plays, characters of high social status speak in blank verse (i.e. unrhymed iambic pentameter), while peasants and servants speak in prose.