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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Page vii
... Prose and Other Diversions 108 8 Short and Shared Lines 116 9 Long Lines 143 10 Shakespeare's Syllabic Ambiguity : More Than Meets the Ear 149 11 Lines with Extra Syllables 160 12 Lines with Omitted Syllables 174 13 Trochees 185 14 The ...
... Prose and Other Diversions 108 8 Short and Shared Lines 116 9 Long Lines 143 10 Shakespeare's Syllabic Ambiguity : More Than Meets the Ear 149 11 Lines with Extra Syllables 160 12 Lines with Omitted Syllables 174 13 Trochees 185 14 The ...
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... prose lack this essential feature : in different printed versions the separate lines may end at different words without injury to meaning or form ; dif- ferent printed versions of poems must retain the lines as they are . If a line is ...
... prose lack this essential feature : in different printed versions the separate lines may end at different words without injury to meaning or form ; dif- ferent printed versions of poems must retain the lines as they are . If a line is ...
Page xi
... prose ) , its changes over his career , and , most of all , the expressive gestures and powers this system provides for Shakespeare and his dramatis personae . To describe these matters fully , it has seemed necessary to place Shake ...
... prose ) , its changes over his career , and , most of all , the expressive gestures and powers this system provides for Shakespeare and his dramatis personae . To describe these matters fully , it has seemed necessary to place Shake ...
Page xiv
... prose in seminars of the Shakespeare Association of America . Several colleagues at the Univer- sity of Minnesota ( in addition to those already mentioned ) have encour- aged and supported this work , notably Kent Bales , Norman Fruman ...
... prose in seminars of the Shakespeare Association of America . Several colleagues at the Univer- sity of Minnesota ( in addition to those already mentioned ) have encour- aged and supported this work , notably Kent Bales , Norman Fruman ...
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... prose rhythm of the words and the metrical norm— and what they find interesting is the divergence of the rhythm from the meter . This is not , on first view , an unreasonable position , but it has fre- quently become so when , under the ...
... prose rhythm of the words and the metrical norm— and what they find interesting is the divergence of the rhythm from the meter . This is not , on first view , an unreasonable position , but it has fre- quently become so when , under the ...
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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