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 ix
... means to show that the leftover words belong with the ones they follow . Even when the sense of one line runs over to the next , it is important to the form of a poem that the lines be preserved intact . If the line is the basic unit of ...
... means to show that the leftover words belong with the ones they follow . Even when the sense of one line runs over to the next , it is important to the form of a poem that the lines be preserved intact . If the line is the basic unit of ...
Pàgina x
... means of settling problems of chronology ; metri- cal style , of little interest in itself , provided clues to dating and authorship . Similarly , the study of Chaucer's verse has been more concerned with whether or not certain ...
... means of settling problems of chronology ; metri- cal style , of little interest in itself , provided clues to dating and authorship . Similarly , the study of Chaucer's verse has been more concerned with whether or not certain ...
Pàgina 2
... means that it assumes as a fundamental feature of our speech the frequent — and some- times regular and rhythmic — alternation of unstressed and stressed syl- lables , and that it mirrors our occasional tendency to use several of those ...
... means that it assumes as a fundamental feature of our speech the frequent — and some- times regular and rhythmic — alternation of unstressed and stressed syl- lables , and that it mirrors our occasional tendency to use several of those ...
Pàgina 6
... means of relieving a perceived monot- ony in the standard line , and some twentieth - century poets ( for example , Stevens , Lowell , and Larkin ) have gone much further in the direction of transforming it into a loosely accentual five ...
... means of relieving a perceived monot- ony in the standard line , and some twentieth - century poets ( for example , Stevens , Lowell , and Larkin ) have gone much further in the direction of transforming it into a loosely accentual five ...
Pàgina 7
... means as well -- midline pauses and endline enjambments — but these are the three metrical variations that almost every poet writing in English has understood to be standard and permissible . These three variations , with perhaps a ...
... means as well -- midline pauses and endline enjambments — but these are the three metrical variations that almost every poet writing in English has understood to be standard and permissible . These three variations , with perhaps a ...
Continguts
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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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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