Shakespeare's Metrical ArtUniversity of California Press, 2 aug. 1988 - 363 pagini 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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... the slightest idea . And I said , with rap- ture , Here is something I can study all my life , and never understand . SAMUEL BECKETT , Molloy ( 169 ) This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 1 The Iambic Pentameter.
... the slightest idea . And I said , with rap- ture , Here is something I can study all my life , and never understand . SAMUEL BECKETT , Molloy ( 169 ) This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 1 The Iambic Pentameter.
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George T. Wright. This page intentionally left blank CHAPTER 1 The Iambic Pentameter Line When Shakespeare and Marlowe.
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George T. Wright. CHAPTER 1 The Iambic Pentameter Line When Shakespeare and Marlowe and Ben Jonson sat around the Mermaid Tavern and talked like we are doing , iambic pentameter was wonderfully new and timely . ( WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ...
George T. Wright. CHAPTER 1 The Iambic Pentameter Line When Shakespeare and Marlowe and Ben Jonson sat around the Mermaid Tavern and talked like we are doing , iambic pentameter was wonderfully new and timely . ( WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ...
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... Chapter 13 ) , as we will hear in this line if we give it a natural reading : Ay , that's the first thing that we have to do ( 3 Henry VI , 4.3.62 ) These variations , commanded by a skillful poet , can go a long way toward making ...
... Chapter 13 ) , as we will hear in this line if we give it a natural reading : Ay , that's the first thing that we have to do ( 3 Henry VI , 4.3.62 ) These variations , commanded by a skillful poet , can go a long way toward making ...
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... Chapter 4 , note 5 , and Chapter 13 , pp . 186-88 . ) Four - stressers , noticing that one of the major points of stress in an iambic pentameter line is often weaker than the others , have speculated that an undercurrent of the four ...
... Chapter 4 , note 5 , and Chapter 13 , pp . 186-88 . ) Four - stressers , noticing that one of the major points of stress in an iambic pentameter line is often weaker than the others , have speculated that an undercurrent of the four ...
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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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