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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... words without injury to meaning or form ; dif- ferent printed versions of poems must retain the lines as they are . If a line is too long to print on a narrow page or column , the printer must use some conventional means to show that ...
... words without injury to meaning or form ; dif- ferent printed versions of poems must retain the lines as they are . If a line is too long to print on a narrow page or column , the printer must use some conventional means to show that ...
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... words that move us so in the theater ; and when I hear gifted actors , blessed with the ability to speak the speech trippingly or , when appropriate , with due gravity , mislay the accents , omit words or change keys , and ignore the ...
... words that move us so in the theater ; and when I hear gifted actors , blessed with the ability to speak the speech trippingly or , when appropriate , with due gravity , mislay the accents , omit words or change keys , and ignore the ...
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... words to the front , to the first syllable , as all Germanic languages do , would seem to be distinguished by an impulse toward the trochaic , and certainly large numbers of English words , such as window , table , swim- ming , and ...
... words to the front , to the first syllable , as all Germanic languages do , would seem to be distinguished by an impulse toward the trochaic , and certainly large numbers of English words , such as window , table , swim- ming , and ...
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... words and phrases in poetic lines reflects our custom of speaking , and of hearing each other speak , in a succession of rhythmic units ; if the lines are metrical , if they make patterns out of series of lightly or strongly stressed ...
... words and phrases in poetic lines reflects our custom of speaking , and of hearing each other speak , in a succession of rhythmic units ; if the lines are metrical , if they make patterns out of series of lightly or strongly stressed ...
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... words that appear in actual lines ( this could be avoided only by using the crude formula itself as a line ) , for different vowels differ- ently enclosed by consonants will not be given the identical value in speech . Again , this does ...
... words that appear in actual lines ( this could be avoided only by using the crude formula itself as a line ) , for different vowels differ- ently enclosed by consonants will not be given the identical value in speech . Again , this does ...
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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