A Shakespeare PrimerAMS Press, 1971 - 224 pages |
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... rime than blank verse . The blank verse is in the earliest manner , with end - stopped lines and almost no light endings . The rimed lines appear as couplets , quatrains , and sonnets , and in a variety of meters , ranging INTRODUCTIONS ...
... rime than blank verse . The blank verse is in the earliest manner , with end - stopped lines and almost no light endings . The rimed lines appear as couplets , quatrains , and sonnets , and in a variety of meters , ranging INTRODUCTIONS ...
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... Rime is freely employed ; prose is not used at all . A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM The first reference we have to A Midsummer - Night's Dream is its listing by Meres in his Palladis Tamia ( 1598 ) as one of Shakespeare's comedies . It was ...
... Rime is freely employed ; prose is not used at all . A MIDSUMMER - NIGHT'S DREAM The first reference we have to A Midsummer - Night's Dream is its listing by Meres in his Palladis Tamia ( 1598 ) as one of Shakespeare's comedies . It was ...
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... rime in letters and other passages where prose would be used normally , and the marked differences in style between passages , most authorities believe that the play as we have it is a revision of an earlier draft , and on this theory ...
... rime in letters and other passages where prose would be used normally , and the marked differences in style between passages , most authorities believe that the play as we have it is a revision of an earlier draft , and on this theory ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
England in the Time of Shakespeare | 9 |
Shakespeares Works | 56 |
Copyright | |
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