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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... poetry , in literate cultures the line is the indispensable unit of verse and the one by which we recognize its ... poem that the lines be preserved intact . If the line is the basic unit of a poetic text , meter and stanza measure the ...
... poetry , in literate cultures the line is the indispensable unit of verse and the one by which we recognize its ... poem that the lines be preserved intact . If the line is the basic unit of a poetic text , meter and stanza measure the ...
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... poets like Wyatt and Shakespeare , Donne and Milton , achieved their powerful and passionate poetry . The intensity with which they or their characters speak , an inten- sity we can still hear in their written texts and in stage ...
... poets like Wyatt and Shakespeare , Donne and Milton , achieved their powerful and passionate poetry . The intensity with which they or their characters speak , an inten- sity we can still hear in their written texts and in stage ...
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... poets of this period found and nurtured in the iambic pentameter line . For one reason or another , readers and critics have usually had little understanding of these resources , and the chapters of this large book try to treat this ...
... poets of this period found and nurtured in the iambic pentameter line . For one reason or another , readers and critics have usually had little understanding of these resources , and the chapters of this large book try to treat this ...
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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 ...
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... poetic from musical meter . The nature of iambic poetry in English , then , is largely determined by its sources in English speech , and these are , in summary , of two kinds : ( i ) our perception of two levels or ranges of stress ...
... poetic from musical meter . The nature of iambic poetry in English , then , is largely determined by its sources in English speech , and these are , in summary , of two kinds : ( i ) our perception of two levels or ranges of stress ...
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