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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... vary in strength , and unstressed syllables may vary in weak- ness , and a third group may strike us as uncertain , as falling into a range that seems stronger than unstressed but weaker than stressed ( here marked as ) . In the most ...
... vary in strength , and unstressed syllables may vary in weak- ness , and a third group may strike us as uncertain , as falling into a range that seems stronger than unstressed but weaker than stressed ( here marked as ) . In the most ...
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... vary the metrical norm without fun- damentally violating it . Over the centuries poets have experimented with different variations and their combinations , and the results suggest that this line can enter into pacts with almost any ...
... vary the metrical norm without fun- damentally violating it . Over the centuries poets have experimented with different variations and their combinations , and the results suggest that this line can enter into pacts with almost any ...
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... varies with every mature practitioner , the forms it took before Shakespeare's time differ from one another quite remarkably . After Shakespeare , the meter in a sense settled down , became tame or domesti- cated : except for Milton ...
... varies with every mature practitioner , the forms it took before Shakespeare's time differ from one another quite remarkably . After Shakespeare , the meter in a sense settled down , became tame or domesti- cated : except for Milton ...
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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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