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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... suggest , the free verse line is not so much a departure from iambic pentameter as the inevitable next step in a centuries - long process that has followed its own strong logic . Only part of that process is described here — from its ...
... suggest , the free verse line is not so much a departure from iambic pentameter as the inevitable next step in a centuries - long process that has followed its own strong logic . Only part of that process is described here — from its ...
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... suggested : " it is the recognition of a pattern of recurrent stressed syllables against a background of unstressed syllables that accounts for the fact that widely different intervals between stressed syllables appear to the listener ...
... suggested : " it is the recognition of a pattern of recurrent stressed syllables against a background of unstressed syllables that accounts for the fact that widely different intervals between stressed syllables appear to the listener ...
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... suggest that this line can enter into pacts with almost any metrical devil and still keep its soul intact . By the nineteenth century most poets were willing to try an occasional anapest as an agreeable means of relieving a perceived ...
... suggest that this line can enter into pacts with almost any metrical devil and still keep its soul intact . By the nineteenth century most poets were willing to try an occasional anapest as an agreeable means of relieving a perceived ...
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... suggest that the art of iambic verse , especially of iambic pentameter , is an art requiring continuous negotiation of the stress - values of syllables . Even if , as we said earlier , English syllables mainly alternate between two ...
... suggest that the art of iambic verse , especially of iambic pentameter , is an art requiring continuous negotiation of the stress - values of syllables . Even if , as we said earlier , English syllables mainly alternate between two ...
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... suggest the stumbling , precise discourse of a lover or arguer feeling his rhetorical way , Milton's to shadow forth the grand mo- tions of his epic narrative , all exemplify ways of manipulating the counters of this expressive system ...
... suggest the stumbling , precise discourse of a lover or arguer feeling his rhetorical way , Milton's to shadow forth the grand mo- tions of his epic narrative , all exemplify ways of manipulating the counters of this expressive system ...
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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