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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... spoken with many degrees or shades of emphasis ( of loudness , sharpness , duration , and other ways of signaling importance ) , it seems likely that in most English speech we perceive two major levels of stress , and that we hear ( and ...
... spoken with many degrees or shades of emphasis ( of loudness , sharpness , duration , and other ways of signaling importance ) , it seems likely that in most English speech we perceive two major levels of stress , and that we hear ( and ...
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George T. Wright. not to say , however , that every syllable is spoken with a degree of stress that makes immediately clear to which of these two levels it belongs . Stressed syllables may vary in strength , and unstressed syllables may ...
George T. Wright. not to say , however , that every syllable is spoken with a degree of stress that makes immediately clear to which of these two levels it belongs . Stressed syllables may vary in strength , and unstressed syllables may ...
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... spoken English and , for purposes of emotional intensification , to jeopardize our percep- tion of the strict accentual - syllabic pattern . It is especially when iambic poetry is cast in pentameter that these sources of complexity ...
... spoken English and , for purposes of emotional intensification , to jeopardize our percep- tion of the strict accentual - syllabic pattern . It is especially when iambic poetry is cast in pentameter that these sources of complexity ...
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... spoken or heard silently by a reader with some auditory experience of the tradition , it does not violate the pattern : enough of the line is still iambic to sustain the iambic feeling , especially when earlier lines ( from the previous ...
... spoken or heard silently by a reader with some auditory experience of the tradition , it does not violate the pattern : enough of the line is still iambic to sustain the iambic feeling , especially when earlier lines ( from the previous ...
Pàgina 12
... spoken English . Some of them seem essentially hostile to iambic pentameter , find- ing it tedious and mechanical and hoping to rescue from what they see as its dead hand the lively literature it once roused to exuberant life . The ...
... spoken English . Some of them seem essentially hostile to iambic pentameter , find- ing it tedious and mechanical and hoping to rescue from what they see as its dead hand the lively literature it once roused to exuberant life . The ...
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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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