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 x
... stage performances , owes much of its special force to its having been expressed in verse . The verse form springs the feeling , enables it to leap from the speaking voice or text to the listening reader . Many who have been moved by ...
... stage performances , owes much of its special force to its having been expressed in verse . The verse form springs the feeling , enables it to leap from the speaking voice or text to the listening reader . Many who have been moved by ...
Pàgina xii
... stages — espe- cially the crisis of accentual - syllabic meter in nineteenth- and twentieth- century poetry — I hope to trace more briefly in another book . Writing about iambic pentameter involves a critic in complex prob- lems of ...
... stages — espe- cially the crisis of accentual - syllabic meter in nineteenth- and twentieth- century poetry — I hope to trace more briefly in another book . Writing about iambic pentameter involves a critic in complex prob- lems of ...
Pàgina xiv
... stages of this work ; and T. V. F. Brogan , whose stupendous bibliography has wonderfully fa- cilitated work in this field , kindly read the original , rather bloated manu- script and saved it from many blunders of substance and ...
... stages of this work ; and T. V. F. Brogan , whose stupendous bibliography has wonderfully fa- cilitated work in this field , kindly read the original , rather bloated manu- script and saved it from many blunders of substance and ...
Pàgina 17
... stages , so that at different times audiences have entertained somewhat different expectations as they read or listened to blank or rhymed pentameter . Audiences are always diverse and usually include some members who listen intently to ...
... stages , so that at different times audiences have entertained somewhat different expectations as they read or listened to blank or rhymed pentameter . Audiences are always diverse and usually include some members who listen intently to ...
Pàgina 18
... stage . Far from being the school meter it later became , the English ten - syllable line " was widely regarded as a poor provincial cousin to the much more expressive meters of Latin quantitative poetry . Then , with an extraordinary ...
... stage . Far from being the school meter it later became , the English ten - syllable line " was widely regarded as a poor provincial cousin to the much more expressive meters of Latin quantitative poetry . Then , with an extraordinary ...
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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