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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... 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 Prose and Other Diversions 108 8 Short and Shared Lines 116 9 Long Lines 143 10 Shakespeare's Syllabic Ambiguity ...
... 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 Prose and Other Diversions 108 8 Short and Shared Lines 116 9 Long Lines 143 10 Shakespeare's Syllabic Ambiguity ...
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... poets of this period , and Shakespeare in particular , structured their lines ( meter ) and connected them with each other ( stanza ) —a dry subject that might seem hardly worthy of interest , but it is out of such structures and ...
... poets of this period , and Shakespeare in particular , structured their lines ( meter ) and connected them with each other ( stanza ) —a dry subject that might seem hardly worthy of interest , but it is out of such structures and ...
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... poets of this period found and nurtured in the iambic pentameter line . For one reason or another , readers and critics have usually had little understanding of these resources , and the chapters of this large book try to treat this ...
... poets of this period found and nurtured in the iambic pentameter line . For one reason or another , readers and critics have usually had little understanding of these resources , and the chapters of this large book try to treat this ...
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... poets , like Wyatt , Spenser , and Donne , where it some- times provides metrical hints , but have used modernized - spelling texts ( like Booth's ) for most other poets and passages ; in certain cases ( The Riverside Shakespeare ...
... poets , like Wyatt , Spenser , and Donne , where it some- times provides metrical hints , but have used modernized - spelling texts ( like Booth's ) for most other poets and passages ; in certain cases ( The Riverside Shakespeare ...
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... poets writing in English , lack the amplitude of the five - foot line and seem as a rule unable to survive the absence of rhyme , a defect which partly limits their power to seem convincingly speechlike . The same is even truer of forms ...
... poets writing in English , lack the amplitude of the five - foot line and seem as a rule unable to survive the absence of rhyme , a defect which partly limits their power to seem convincingly speechlike . The same is even truer of forms ...
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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