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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... Passages 229 16 What Else Shakespeare's Meter Reveals 249 17 Some Metrically Expressive Features in Donne and Milton 264 18 Conclusion : Verse as Speech , Theater , Text , Tradition , Illusion 281 Appendix A : Percentage Distribution of ...
... Passages 229 16 What Else Shakespeare's Meter Reveals 249 17 Some Metrically Expressive Features in Donne and Milton 264 18 Conclusion : Verse as Speech , Theater , Text , Tradition , Illusion 281 Appendix A : Percentage Distribution of ...
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... passages in which the poet's metrical skill contributed to fine effects . But the expressive metrical technique of only a few major poets has been described at length by critics whose interest has been equally in prosodic structure and ...
... passages in which the poet's metrical skill contributed to fine effects . But the expressive metrical technique of only a few major poets has been described at length by critics whose interest has been equally in prosodic structure and ...
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... passages . I have kept the original spelling for some poets , like Wyatt , Spenser , and Donne , where it some- times provides metrical hints , but have used modernized - spelling texts ( like Booth's ) for most other poets and passages ...
... passages . I have kept the original spelling for some poets , like Wyatt , Spenser , and Donne , where it some- times provides metrical hints , but have used modernized - spelling texts ( like Booth's ) for most other poets and passages ...
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... for allowing me to use some short passages originally written for an article in William Shakespeare : His World , His Wort , His Influence ( 1985 ) . Darwin revolutionized our study of nature by taking the actual xiv Preface.
... for allowing me to use some short passages originally written for an article in William Shakespeare : His World , His Wort , His Influence ( 1985 ) . Darwin revolutionized our study of nature by taking the actual xiv Preface.
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... passage , to a final confirmation of iambicity . On the other hand , poems that use many feminine endings tend to undermine this feature of iambic verse and may have some expressive reason for do- ing so . Although the English syllables ...
... passage , to a final confirmation of iambicity . On the other hand , poems that use many feminine endings tend to undermine this feature of iambic verse and may have some expressive reason for do- ing so . Although the English syllables ...
Contenido
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Early Expressive Pentameters | 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 |
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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