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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... Verse of Shakespeare's Theater 91 7 Prose and Other Diversions 108 8 Short and Shared Lines 116 9 Long Lines 143 10 Shakespeare's Syllabic Ambiguity : More Than Meets the Ear 149 11 Lines with Extra Syllables 160 12 Lines with Omitted ...
... Verse of Shakespeare's Theater 91 7 Prose and Other Diversions 108 8 Short and Shared Lines 116 9 Long Lines 143 10 Shakespeare's Syllabic Ambiguity : More Than Meets the Ear 149 11 Lines with Extra Syllables 160 12 Lines with Omitted ...
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... have to signify our more general interest in the way lines combine to form larger prosodic units . Meter lets us hear the line's inner relations , stanza its outer connections . This book is chiefly concerned with the verse lines of ix ...
... have to signify our more general interest in the way lines combine to form larger prosodic units . Meter lets us hear the line's inner relations , stanza its outer connections . This book is chiefly concerned with the verse lines of ix ...
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George T. Wright. This book is chiefly concerned with the verse lines of Renaissance poems and plays and with the way poets of this period , and Shakespeare in particular , structured their lines ( meter ) and connected them with each ...
George T. Wright. This book is chiefly concerned with the verse lines of Renaissance poems and plays and with the way poets of this period , and Shakespeare in particular , structured their lines ( meter ) and connected them with each ...
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... lines , long lines , and prose ) , its changes over his career , and , most of all , the expressive gestures and ... verse . It was partly in order to grasp the issues of free verse , to understand what it was free from , that I became ...
... lines , long lines , and prose ) , its changes over his career , and , most of all , the expressive gestures and ... verse . It was partly in order to grasp the issues of free verse , to understand what it was free from , that I became ...
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... poetry — I hope to trace more briefly in another book . Writing about iambic ... verse , one encounters textual problems of every sort : In the absence of ... lines and their move- ment in time may justly feel offended at any minute ...
... poetry — I hope to trace more briefly in another book . Writing about iambic ... verse , one encounters textual problems of every sort : In the absence of ... lines and their move- ment in time may justly feel offended at any minute ...
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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