Shakespeare's Third Keyboard: The Significance of Rime in Shakespeare's Plays"This book springs from an unaccountable gap among the rows of "Shakespeare Studies" on bookshop and library shelves. Playgoers and readers with insatiable appetites for every kind of commentary on Shakespeare's work who discover some volumes devoted to his style may find a musical metaphor illuminating: that Shakespeare had three keyboards at his disposal. The first, blank verse, and the second, prose, have attracted some critical attention; but the third, his rime (as his contemporary printers spelled it), has been neglected. This study aims to fill that gap."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Contents
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Part I | 11 |
Introduction having perceived that the work was needed | 13 |
Critical Background Still may reason warre with rime | 17 |
Prologues Choruses and Epilogues | 22 |
Initial Prologues | 23 |
Midplay Choruses | 25 |
Epilogues | 27 |
Visions Masques and Plays within Plays | 58 |
Masques | 62 |
Plays within Plays | 66 |
Unpredictable Rime | 74 |
Couplet Soliloquies | 76 |
Riming Episodes | 80 |
Part II | 85 |
Rime in Alls Well That Ends Well | 87 |
Poems | 31 |
Love Poems | 33 |
Entertaining Poems | 37 |
Catalyst Poems | 39 |
Songs | 47 |
Love Songs | 48 |
Songs of Good Life | 52 |
Rime in King Lear 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio | 142 |
Envoi | 190 |
Notes | 192 |
Works Cited | 197 |
Index | 200 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Shakespeare's Third Keyboard: The Significance of Rime in Shakespeare's Plays |
| Author | Lorna Flint |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Delaware Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 087413692X, 9780874136920 |
| Length | 205 pages |
| Subjects | › Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / Shakespeare |
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