Shakespeare's Metrical ArtUniversity of California Press, 2. aug 1988 - 363 pages This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language. |
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... Expressive Pentameters 3 The Sixteenth - Century Line : Pattern and Variation 4 Flexibility and Ease in Four Older Poets ix I 20 38 57 5 An Art of Small Differences : Shakespeare's Sonnets 75 6 The Verse of Shakespeare's Theater 91 7 ...
... Expressive Pentameters 3 The Sixteenth - Century Line : Pattern and Variation 4 Flexibility and Ease in Four Older Poets ix I 20 38 57 5 An Art of Small Differences : Shakespeare's Sonnets 75 6 The Verse of Shakespeare's Theater 91 7 ...
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... expressive metrical technique of only a few major poets has been described at length by critics whose interest has been equally in prosodic structure and aesthetic purpose — for example , Donne by Arnold Stein , Pope by Jacob Adler ...
... expressive metrical technique of only a few major poets has been described at length by critics whose interest has been equally in prosodic structure and aesthetic purpose — for example , Donne by Arnold Stein , Pope by Jacob Adler ...
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... expressiveness . My main purpose here is to describe the metrical system Shakespeare uses , particularly in his plays ... expressive gestures and powers this system provides for Shakespeare and his dramatis personae . To describe these ...
... expressiveness . My main purpose here is to describe the metrical system Shakespeare uses , particularly in his plays ... expressive gestures and powers this system provides for Shakespeare and his dramatis personae . To describe these ...
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... expressive articulation of Renaissance and Baroque music . I owe more specific debts to many friends , relatives , colleagues , and students , especially to those who have encouraged me in this enterprise X111 Preface.
... expressive articulation of Renaissance and Baroque music . I owe more specific debts to many friends , relatives , colleagues , and students , especially to those who have encouraged me in this enterprise X111 Preface.
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... expressive reason for do- ing so . Although the English syllables we speak can be spoken with many degrees or shades of emphasis ( of loudness , sharpness , duration , and other ways of signaling importance ) , it seems likely that in ...
... expressive reason for do- ing so . Although the English syllables we speak can be spoken with many degrees or shades of emphasis ( of loudness , sharpness , duration , and other ways of signaling importance ) , it seems likely that in ...
Contents
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Pattern and Variation | 38 |
4 Flexibility and Ease in Four Older Poets | 57 |
Shakespeares Sonnets | 75 |
6 The Verse of Shakespeares Theater | 91 |
7 Prose and Other Diversions | 108 |
8 Short and Shared Lines | 116 |
14 The Play of Phrase and Line | 207 |
15 Shakespeares Metrical Technique in Dramatic Passages | 229 |
16 What Else Shakespeares Meter Reveals | 249 |
17 Some Metrically Expressive Features in Donne and Milton | 264 |
Verse as Speech Theater Text Tradition Illusion | 281 |
Percentage Distribution of Prose in Shakespeares Plays | 291 |
Main Types of Deviant Lines in Shakespeares Plays | 292 |
Short and Shared Lines | 294 |
9 Long Lines | 143 |
More Than Meets the Ear | 149 |
11 Lines with Extra Syllables | 160 |
12 Lines with Omitted Syllables | 174 |
13 Trochees | 185 |
Notes | 297 |
Main Works Cited or Consulted | 325 |
Index | 339 |
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