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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... reader . Many who have been moved by these poems or plays will acknowledge that the patterned verse has something to do with their experience , but a more detailed study of the deeper structures and motions of this verse can help to ...
... reader . Many who have been moved by these poems or plays will acknowledge that the patterned verse has something to do with their experience , but a more detailed study of the deeper structures and motions of this verse can help to ...
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... readers and critics have usually had little understanding of these resources , and the chapters of this large book try to treat this heroic subject with something of the passion for system , for pattern , and for expression that marks ...
... readers and critics have usually had little understanding of these resources , and the chapters of this large book try to treat this heroic subject with something of the passion for system , for pattern , and for expression that marks ...
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... readers , scholars , and actors to listen more closely to the meter , to hear how much of human feeling is involved ... reading for specific passages . I have kept the original spelling for some poets , like Wyatt , Spenser , and Donne ...
... readers , scholars , and actors to listen more closely to the meter , to hear how much of human feeling is involved ... reading for specific passages . I have kept the original spelling for some poets , like Wyatt , Spenser , and Donne ...
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... reader is likely to take it in stride , will probably not much notice the small differences between strong or between weak syllables and will keep on hearing the iambic current . But when a syllable that appears to be in one of the ...
... reader is likely to take it in stride , will probably not much notice the small differences between strong or between weak syllables and will keep on hearing the iambic current . But when a syllable that appears to be in one of the ...
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Contents
1 | |
Early Expressive Pentameters | 20 |
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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accentual actors anapests appear beat blank verse broken-backed line caesura Chapter characters Chaucer combinations Coriolanus couplets Cressida Donne Donne's dramatic verse effect elision Elizabethan enjambment epic caesura example expressive extra syllable feeling feet feminine endings foot Gascoigne half-line Hamlet headless hear Henry hexameter iambic line iambic pentameter iambic pentameter line iambs Julius Caesar King Lear language later plays later poets line-types line's Macbeth meter metrical pattern metrical variations metrists midline break minor words monosyllabic normal Othello passage pause phrasal playwrights poems poetic poetry prose punctuation pyrrhic readers regular rhetorical rhyme rhythm rhythmic Richard II scene seems segments sense sentence Shake Shakespeare shared lines short lines Sidney's sonnets sound speak speaker speare's speech speechlike Spenser spoken spondaic spondee stanza stressed position strong structure style syllables syntactical syntax theater thee thou tion trochaic trochee Troilus unstressed syllables usually verb verse lines voice vowels Wyatt