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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... verse and the one by which we recognize its nature . Paragraphs of prose lack this essential feature : in different printed versions the separate lines may end at different words without injury to meaning or form ; dif- ferent printed ...
... verse and the one by which we recognize its nature . Paragraphs of prose lack this essential feature : in different printed versions the separate lines may end at different words without injury to meaning or form ; dif- ferent printed ...
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... verse . The verse form springs the feeling , enables it to leap from the speaking voice or text to the listening reader . Many who have been moved by these poems or plays will acknowledge that the patterned verse has something to do ...
... verse . The verse form springs the feeling , enables it to leap from the speaking voice or text to the listening reader . Many who have been moved by these poems or plays will acknowledge that the patterned verse has something to do ...
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... verse , one encounters textual problems of every sort : In the absence of any speaker of Middle English , how can we know how Chaucer's verse sounded — to Chaucer , to Lydgate , or to Wyatt ? To what extent were the poems of Chaucer ...
... verse , one encounters textual problems of every sort : In the absence of any speaker of Middle English , how can we know how Chaucer's verse sounded — to Chaucer , to Lydgate , or to Wyatt ? To what extent were the poems of Chaucer ...
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... verse and directs our rapt attention to this or that part of its design . But when I hear students , innocent of dissection , murdering the verse ; when I hear learned scholars at professional meetings quote Shakespeare's lines without ...
... verse and directs our rapt attention to this or that part of its design . But when I hear students , innocent of dissection , murdering the verse ; when I hear learned scholars at professional meetings quote Shakespeare's lines without ...
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... verse is iambic , that means that it assumes as a fundamental feature of our speech the frequent — and some- times regular and rhythmic — alternation of unstressed and stressed syl- lables , and that it mirrors our occasional tendency ...
... verse is iambic , that means that it assumes as a fundamental feature of our speech the frequent — and some- times regular and rhythmic — alternation of unstressed and stressed syl- lables , and that it mirrors our occasional tendency ...
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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