The first conventional style Wolfgang lists is: the rhetorical language -written for the actors to declaim rather than speak used in that time. In the video below watch how a conversation erupts into a lengthy speech symbolized by the King (my sister Emily taking a drink) and exciting diction.
From the over dramatic acting, we can see that the characters were having a conversation that was establishing the focus and concern of the characters. The King was showing his compassion for his Kingdom and the Earl of Surrey was showing his love and support for the King, when the King bursts into a interrupting, loud, and formal speech. He uses grandious words such as Revolution, solid firmness, neptune, parels, and ensue that diction matches his title as a King. Just as Wolfgang states in his article "the language does not spring naturally from the needs of the character." The speech might be exciting and more entertaining than the boring form of the conversation but the King seems bipolar and pompous when they randomly start speeches between friends. The speech holds up the important actions of the King and his two Earls to stop the downward slope of Kingdom in the coming scene. A closer look at the diction Shakspeare used in his early plays is found under the section diction.
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