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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... rhymes ) , it is probably the best word we 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 ...
... rhymes ) , it is probably the best word we 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 ...
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... rhyme , feminine endings , deviant lines , and similar matters was to render these subjects dry and dull . When New Critics focused attention on poetic detail , they often cited particularly felicitous phrases , lines , or passages in ...
... rhyme , feminine endings , deviant lines , and similar matters was to render these subjects dry and dull . When New Critics focused attention on poetic detail , they often cited particularly felicitous phrases , lines , or passages in ...
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... rhymes , for 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 ...
... rhymes , for 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 ...
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... Away to field and win renown ! | with courage beat your enemies down ! ( Humphrey Gifford , " For Soldiers , " in Hebel and Hudson , 101 ) In the last quoted passage , the internal rhymes make 4 Shakespeare's Metrical Art.
... Away to field and win renown ! | with courage beat your enemies down ! ( Humphrey Gifford , " For Soldiers , " in Hebel and Hudson , 101 ) In the last quoted passage , the internal rhymes make 4 Shakespeare's Metrical Art.
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... rhyme , a defect which partly limits their power to seem convincingly speechlike . The same is even truer of forms made up entirely of shorter iambic lines . Pentameter , then , is the most speechlike of English line - lengths , es ...
... rhyme , a defect which partly limits their power to seem convincingly speechlike . The same is even truer of forms made up entirely of shorter iambic lines . Pentameter , then , is the most speechlike of English line - lengths , es ...
Contenido
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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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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