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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... natural when the establishment of texts was necessary to provide a foundation for further literary study . Un- fortunately , one result of the primitive statistical methods used in those early days to study rhyme , feminine endings ...
... natural when the establishment of texts was necessary to provide a foundation for further literary study . Un- fortunately , one result of the primitive statistical methods used in those early days to study rhyme , feminine endings ...
Pàgina 1
... natural trochees . Natural iambs , on the other hand , are easily provided not only by iambic words ( alone , sub- mit ) but also by combining a or the or prepositions with monosyllabic nouns , which are also numerous in English , or by ...
... natural trochees . Natural iambs , on the other hand , are easily provided not only by iambic words ( alone , sub- mit ) but also by combining a or the or prepositions with monosyllabic nouns , which are also numerous in English , or by ...
Pàgina 5
... natural to a more symmetrical line : I shall find time , Cassius ; I shall find time Twelve year since , Miranda , twelve year since Take your own time , Annie , take your own time ( Julius Caesar , 5.3.103 ) ( The Tempest , 1.2.53 ) ...
... natural to a more symmetrical line : I shall find time , Cassius ; I shall find time Twelve year since , Miranda , twelve year since Take your own time , Annie , take your own time ( Julius Caesar , 5.3.103 ) ( The Tempest , 1.2.53 ) ...
Pàgina 9
... natural flexibility of English stress will inevitably result in the weakening or strengthening of stressed or unstressed syllables here and there in most lines . In practice , the poet may produce the following changes in the normal ...
... natural flexibility of English stress will inevitably result in the weakening or strengthening of stressed or unstressed syllables here and there in most lines . In practice , the poet may produce the following changes in the normal ...
Pàgina 10
... 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 way toward making iambic pentameter carry a strong flavor of natural English speech ...
... 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 way toward making iambic pentameter carry a strong flavor of natural English speech ...
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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