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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... least a shade more stress than the syllable it follows . But they 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 ...
... least a shade more stress than the syllable it follows . But they 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 ...
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... least two struc- tural orders simultaneously audible in iambic pentameter — the metrical and the phrasal ( actual lines and stanzas , and actual phrases and sen- tences ) -- and their varied rhythmic interplay constitutes the great ...
... least two struc- tural orders simultaneously audible in iambic pentameter — the metrical and the phrasal ( actual lines and stanzas , and actual phrases and sen- tences ) -- and their varied rhythmic interplay constitutes the great ...
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... least fairly new , certainly new in its force , its range , its power ; and every line they wrote was not at all ( as the lines of nineteenth- and twentieth - century poets often are ) an invoca- tion of a sacred tradition . They could ...
... least fairly new , certainly new in its force , its range , its power ; and every line they wrote was not at all ( as the lines of nineteenth- and twentieth - century poets often are ) an invoca- tion of a sacred tradition . They could ...
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... least from Sidney's time to our own , for it not only appears in single feet but combines with other kinds of feet to provide a rich storehouse of differently shaped and sounded phrases.2 The rareness of this kind of spondee in Chaucer ...
... least from Sidney's time to our own , for it not only appears in single feet but combines with other kinds of feet to provide a rich storehouse of differently shaped and sounded phrases.2 The rareness of this kind of spondee in Chaucer ...
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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