3. Style: Intro

Style: Intro
        Shakespeare used the type of writing styles because they were the “conventional style” of His time and thus gave His work more appeal to popular audiences of the stage. While reading the plays Henry IV parts 1-3 you can identify the “conventional” yet well liked style that He used. The article “Shakespeare’s Dramatic Art: Collection of Essays” by Clemen Wolfgang lists the principles of the conventional style of Shakespeare’s time that art the clearest in his early plays such the play Henry IV. Wolfgang states that the conventional style of that time was that:

1. The language is Rhetorical - written to declaim
2. The poetry depends on extended, sometimes elaborate metaphors and conceits
3. Blank Verse