Shakespeare's Metrical ArtUniversity of California Press, 2 d’ag. 1988 - 363 pàgines 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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Pàgina 2
... frequent — and some- times regular and rhythmic — alternation of unstressed and stressed syl- lables , and that it mirrors ... frequently reversed , so that we start the line with a stressed syllable . The last foot , however , is rarely ...
... frequent — and some- times regular and rhythmic — alternation of unstressed and stressed syl- lables , and that it mirrors ... frequently reversed , so that we start the line with a stressed syllable . The last foot , however , is rarely ...
Pàgina 3
... frequent appearance in English iambic pentameter helps to make this meter sound more speechlike than any other . In effect , iambic pentameter recognizes and incorporates an intermediate kind of syllable that may appear either in a ...
... frequent appearance in English iambic pentameter helps to make this meter sound more speechlike than any other . In effect , iambic pentameter recognizes and incorporates an intermediate kind of syllable that may appear either in a ...
Pàgina 10
... frequently occurs ( see Chapter 13 ) , as we will hear in this line if we give it a natural reading : Ay , that's the first thing that we have to do ( 3 Henry VI , 4.3.62 ) These variations , commanded by a skillful poet , can go a long ...
... frequently occurs ( see Chapter 13 ) , as we will hear in this line if we give it a natural reading : Ay , that's the first thing that we have to do ( 3 Henry VI , 4.3.62 ) These variations , commanded by a skillful poet , can go a long ...
Pàgina 15
... frequently the sense of a line runs over into the next line without punctuation or notable pause . Even syntactical patterns — rhetorical figures of repetition or contrast— will significantly affect the movement and emphasis of metrical ...
... frequently the sense of a line runs over into the next line without punctuation or notable pause . Even syntactical patterns — rhetorical figures of repetition or contrast— will significantly affect the movement and emphasis of metrical ...
Pàgina 23
... frequently deploys initial trochees for variety and grace : " Hath in the Ram " ( GP , 8 ) ; " Redy to wenden " ( GP , 21 ) ; " Bold was hir face " ( GP , 458 ) . But later poets also use trochees , both initial and medial , as an ...
... frequently deploys initial trochees for variety and grace : " Hath in the Ram " ( GP , 8 ) ; " Redy to wenden " ( GP , 21 ) ; " Bold was hir face " ( GP , 458 ) . But later poets also use trochees , both initial and medial , as an ...
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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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