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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... early twentieth ) , poets writing iambic pentameter habitually permitted themselves to diverge from the meter in three conventional ways in order to give variety , interest , grace , and sometimes expressive character to their lines ...
... early twentieth ) , poets writing iambic pentameter habitually permitted themselves to diverge from the meter in three conventional ways in order to give variety , interest , grace , and sometimes expressive character to their lines ...
Pàgina 17
... early and late metrical styles : Shakespeare and Milton are vivid examples . To say only that a poet writes iambic pentameter or blank verse tells little about that poet's work . Iambic pentameter itself , as the most prominent English ...
... early and late metrical styles : Shakespeare and Milton are vivid examples . To say only that a poet writes iambic pentameter or blank verse tells little about that poet's work . Iambic pentameter itself , as the most prominent English ...
Pàgina 18
... early 1580s ( not known to most of his contemporaries till 1591 ) and in poems and plays written mainly from 1590 to 1610 , these writers explored the harmonies and dissonances of the new meter . They did so without feeling ( as later ...
... early 1580s ( not known to most of his contemporaries till 1591 ) and in poems and plays written mainly from 1590 to 1610 , these writers explored the harmonies and dissonances of the new meter . They did so without feeling ( as later ...
Pàgina 19
... early excitement , which can probably only be felt when a meter ( or any aesthetic mode ) with extraordinary expressive possibilities first bursts upon the awareness of artists . In English poetry this happened twice with iambic ...
... early excitement , which can probably only be felt when a meter ( or any aesthetic mode ) with extraordinary expressive possibilities first bursts upon the awareness of artists . In English poetry this happened twice with iambic ...
Pàgina 20
... early Tudor poets can be summarized here only briefly ; they typically include both a metrical norm and techniques of expressive variation . For readers who master enough Middle English to read Chaucer with facility , his iambic ...
... early Tudor poets can be summarized here only briefly ; they typically include both a metrical norm and techniques of expressive variation . For readers who master enough Middle English to read Chaucer with facility , his iambic ...
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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