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Why Shakespeare Introduces Prose into His Verse Plays

William Shakespeare is famous for writing drama in blank verse that most contemporary audiences find all but impenetrable, but prose is just as important to the overall design of a Shakespearean play. Shakespeare doesn’t flip back and forth between verse and prose in a willy-nilly fashion; when he introduces a prose section, it is there […]

Spontaneous Prose of Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac is most commonly remembered for publishing his seminal account of the ‘Beat’ Generation in On the Road. However, while exposing the world to a downtrodden, nuclear holocaust fearing generation, Kerouac was changing the world of modern prose. His steady ‘stream of consciousness’ prose, referred to by fellow Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg, as ‘Jazz […]

Kerouac’s Vision of Spontaneous Prose

Jack Kerouac is most commonly remembered for publishing his seminal account of the ‘Beat’ Generation in On the Road. However, while exposing the world to a downtrodden, nuclear holocaust fearing generation, Kerouac was changing the world of modern prose. His steady ‘stream of consciousness’ prose, referred to by fellow Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg, as ‘Jazz […]

How You Can Write Strong and Lively Prose

The success of any writing depends on the speech. Nothing can weaken or impair the expression of a writer, so much as inept writing. Here are some sure-fire ways to strengthen your writing and captivate your readers. Good prose depends on sentences that are clear and concise. When writing, they pay particular attention to syntax, […]