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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... later stages — espe- cially the crisis of accentual - syllabic meter in ... theater hears , and on what evi- dence and following what procedures a ... play ? Is it a script for actors , a dramatic poem , or a contrivance of a hundred ...
... later stages — espe- cially the crisis of accentual - syllabic meter in ... theater hears , and on what evi- dence and following what procedures a ... play ? Is it a script for actors , a dramatic poem , or a contrivance of a hundred ...
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... later plays ) , Donne , Webster , and Milton - is often extremely idio- syncratic . It is characteristic of this meter that strong poets of every period have not merely learned to use it efficiently , refining their knowledge of it into ...
... later plays ) , Donne , Webster , and Milton - is often extremely idio- syncratic . It is characteristic of this meter that strong poets of every period have not merely learned to use it efficiently , refining their knowledge of it into ...
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... 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 poets , especially after Milton or Pope , had to feel ) oppressed by the weight of ...
... 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 poets , especially after Milton or Pope , had to feel ) oppressed by the weight of ...
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George T. Wright. tion of a sacred tradition . They could play with it ... after the meter had been rediscovered , its full capacities came to be seen and heard ... later centuries young poets first feel the excitement of poetic creation ...
George T. Wright. tion of a sacred tradition . They could play with it ... after the meter had been rediscovered , its full capacities came to be seen and heard ... later centuries young poets first feel the excitement of poetic creation ...
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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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