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 xii
... true readings , but to show the extraordinarily vast range of metrical re- sources English poets of this period found and nurtured in the iambic pentameter line . For one reason or another , readers and critics have usually had little ...
... true readings , but to show the extraordinarily vast range of metrical re- sources English poets of this period found and nurtured in the iambic pentameter line . For one reason or another , readers and critics have usually had little ...
Pàgina 1
... true , especially of its blank verse form . Whether it is true because English is a naturally iambic language is a more questionable claim . A language that insistently pushes the stresses on words to the front , to the first syllable ...
... true , especially of its blank verse form . Whether it is true because English is a naturally iambic language is a more questionable claim . A language that insistently pushes the stresses on words to the front , to the first syllable ...
Pàgina 15
... True wit is Nature to advantage dressed , What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed ( An Essay on Criticism , 11.297-98 ) These ways of accommodating the rhetorical balance to the metrical mea- sure are radically different in ...
... True wit is Nature to advantage dressed , What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed ( An Essay on Criticism , 11.297-98 ) These ways of accommodating the rhetorical balance to the metrical mea- sure are radically different in ...
Pàgina 17
... true account of English iambic pentameter are further complicated by the facts that different poets use it very differently and that it may change its character from one literary era to another . It appears that there is not just one ...
... true account of English iambic pentameter are further complicated by the facts that different poets use it very differently and that it may change its character from one literary era to another . It appears that there is not just one ...
Pàgina 19
... true of iambic pentameter that the most interesting and powerful work in it has been done by poets who , whether inventing , extending , refining , or restoring , were in some sense in on it from the beginning . The beginning , of ...
... true of iambic pentameter that the most interesting and powerful work in it has been done by poets who , whether inventing , extending , refining , or restoring , were in some sense in on it from the beginning . The beginning , of ...
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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