Shakespeare's Metrical ArtThis 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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... iambic pentameter line , its relation to other patterns ( such as short lines , long lines , and prose ) , its changes over his career , and , most of all , the expressive gestures and powers this system provides for Shakespeare and his ...
... iambic pentameter line , its relation to other patterns ( such as short lines , long lines , and prose ) , its changes over his career , and , most of all , the expressive gestures and powers this system provides for Shakespeare and his ...
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... iambic verse accommodates a wide range of metrical variations and trochaic verse does not , though why this should be so is again mysterious . ' Patterns we find in poetry always derive from patterns we I 1 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
... iambic verse accommodates a wide range of metrical variations and trochaic verse does not , though why this should be so is again mysterious . ' Patterns we find in poetry always derive from patterns we I 1 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
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... line we will usually be more aware of a quick succession of syllables with contrasting degrees of stress than of an insistent series of iambs ; it is easier to notice the alternation than to say whether at any point the rhythm is iambic ...
... line we will usually be more aware of a quick succession of syllables with contrasting degrees of stress than of an insistent series of iambs ; it is easier to notice the alternation than to say whether at any point the rhythm is iambic ...
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... iambic pentameter helps to make this meter sound more speechlike than any other . In effect , iambic pentameter recognizes and incorporates an intermediate kind of syllable that may appear either in a stressed or ... Iambic Pentameter Line.
... iambic pentameter helps to make this meter sound more speechlike than any other . In effect , iambic pentameter recognizes and incorporates an intermediate kind of syllable that may appear either in a stressed or ... Iambic Pentameter Line.
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... iambic pattern of the line is not disturbed , only suspended . This capacity for internal delay dis- tinguishes poetic from musical meter . The nature of iambic poetry in English , then , is largely determined by its sources in English ...
... iambic pattern of the line is not disturbed , only suspended . This capacity for internal delay dis- tinguishes poetic from musical meter . The nature of iambic poetry in English , then , is largely determined by its sources in English ...
Contents
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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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