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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Page ix
... poetic text , meter and stanza measure the line in respect to units smaller or larger than the line . The meter of a line is its inner rhythmical structure , which in English we understand as a relationship between stressed and ...
... poetic text , meter and stanza measure the line in respect to units smaller or larger than the line . The meter of a line is its inner rhythmical structure , which in English we understand as a relationship between stressed and ...
Page x
... poetic speech . Many scholars have written about poetic meter in the Renaissance , but their interest has usually been technical , not aesthetic , and the subject has constituted a corner of poetic studies that has not much attracted ...
... poetic speech . Many scholars have written about poetic meter in the Renaissance , but their interest has usually been technical , not aesthetic , and the subject has constituted a corner of poetic studies that has not much attracted ...
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... poetic style first focused chiefly on contempo- rary or modernist verse . It was partly in order to grasp the issues of free verse , to understand what it was free from , that I became absorbed in the technical study of earlier iambic ...
... poetic style first focused chiefly on contempo- rary or modernist verse . It was partly in order to grasp the issues of free verse , to understand what it was free from , that I became absorbed in the technical study of earlier iambic ...
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... poet , what constitutes a text ? Convinced that the present study should broach but cannot resolve such theoretical questions , I have tried to stay sensitively aware of the processes through which Renaissance poetic texts have been ...
... poet , what constitutes a text ? Convinced that the present study should broach but cannot resolve such theoretical questions , I have tried to stay sensitively aware of the processes through which Renaissance poetic texts have been ...
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... poets and passages ; in certain cases ( The Riverside Shakespeare sometimes and Ringler's edition of Sidney always ) ... poet who composes it as well as from that of the reader . Music from my sister's piano filled the homes I grew up in ...
... poets and passages ; in certain cases ( The Riverside Shakespeare sometimes and Ringler's edition of Sidney always ) ... poet who composes it as well as from that of the reader . Music from my sister's piano filled the homes I grew up in ...
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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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