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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... falling into a range that seems stronger than unstressed but weaker than stressed ( here marked as ) . In the most ... fall into one or the other of the two main kinds , stressed or unstressed , we are likely not only to listen for the ...
... falling into a range that seems stronger than unstressed but weaker than stressed ( here marked as ) . In the most ... fall into one or the other of the two main kinds , stressed or unstressed , we are likely not only to listen for the ...
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... fall short of its ten syllables ) , we will not give it so strong an emphasis as we give " old , " " with- , " and " hay . " Probably , too , " he " is somewhat more lightly stressed . On the other hand , " like " would probably , in ...
... fall short of its ten syllables ) , we will not give it so strong an emphasis as we give " old , " " with- , " and " hay . " Probably , too , " he " is somewhat more lightly stressed . On the other hand , " like " would probably , in ...
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... fall naturally into two or three syntactical groupings , although a reader certainly need not pause at the phrase boundaries . Of all English meters , iambic pentameter makes the most of diver- gences between the stress pattern of a ...
... fall naturally into two or three syntactical groupings , although a reader certainly need not pause at the phrase boundaries . Of all English meters , iambic pentameter makes the most of diver- gences between the stress pattern of a ...
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Contenido
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20 | |
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