Shakespeare's Metrical ArtUniversity of California Press, 1988 M08 2 - 363 páginas This 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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... example , Donne by Arnold Stein , Pope by Jacob Adler , Milton by Edward Weismiller . Except for early studies that focused on syllabic structure and not on ex- pressive function , the meter Shakespeare used over his whole career has ...
... example , Donne by Arnold Stein , Pope by Jacob Adler , Milton by Edward Weismiller . Except for early studies that focused on syllabic structure and not on ex- pressive function , the meter Shakespeare used over his whole career has ...
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... example ) , the number of syllables that intervene be- tween stressed ones may be extremely variable , from zero to six or so . But if the meter is not only accentual but also syllabic , then the interval between its accented syllables ...
... example ) , the number of syllables that intervene be- tween stressed ones may be extremely variable , from zero to six or so . But if the meter is not only accentual but also syllabic , then the interval between its accented syllables ...
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... example , Stevens , Lowell , and Larkin ) have gone much further in the direction of transforming it into a loosely accentual five - stress line , even into a kind of shadow norm that we sense in poems , such as those of Ashbery , that ...
... example , Stevens , Lowell , and Larkin ) have gone much further in the direction of transforming it into a loosely accentual five - stress line , even into a kind of shadow norm that we sense in poems , such as those of Ashbery , that ...
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... example , * In deep disgrace with fortune , eyes of men its straightforward meter would not have caught the uneasiness , the uncer- tainty , about “ men's eyes ” that in Shakespeare's line is conveyed not only by the phrase itself but ...
... example , * In deep disgrace with fortune , eyes of men its straightforward meter would not have caught the uneasiness , the uncer- tainty , about “ men's eyes ” that in Shakespeare's line is conveyed not only by the phrase itself but ...
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... examples , most lines are endstopped , but parallel phrasing or forceful syntax facilitates the easy movement from one line to the next , and we are likely to take in each set of lines as an especially melodious and integral group ...
... examples , most lines are endstopped , but parallel phrasing or forceful syntax facilitates the easy movement from one line to the next , and we are likely to take in each set of lines as an especially melodious and integral group ...
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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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