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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Pagina 3
... pause . As we know from many productions , when Othello says , " Put out the light , and then put out the light " ( Othello , 5.2.7 ) , the actor may make a pause of some length after the fourth syllable , but 3 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
... pause . As we know from many productions , when Othello says , " Put out the light , and then put out the light " ( Othello , 5.2.7 ) , the actor may make a pause of some length after the fourth syllable , but 3 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
Pagina 4
... pause which is felt as a fourth beat : 6 beats When I was fair and young , and favor graced me Of many was I sought , their mistress for to be ( Poem by Queen Elizabeth I , in Hebel and Hudson , 54 ) 7 beats As I in hoary winter's night ...
... pause which is felt as a fourth beat : 6 beats When I was fair and young , and favor graced me Of many was I sought , their mistress for to be ( Poem by Queen Elizabeth I , in Hebel and Hudson , 54 ) 7 beats As I in hoary winter's night ...
Pagina 5
... pause , wherever it ap- pears , leaves two stressed syllables on one side and three on the other . For iambic pentameter , however highly patterned its syntax , is by nature asym- metrical - like human speech . If we divide a ten ...
... pause , wherever it ap- pears , leaves two stressed syllables on one side and three on the other . For iambic pentameter , however highly patterned its syntax , is by nature asym- metrical - like human speech . If we divide a ten ...
Pagina 9
... pause , where they were welcome as a metrical flour- ish that could enliven the usual pattern . The initial variation was so com- mon that the sequence of trochee and iamb must often have been perceived as a double foot ( equivalent to ...
... pause , where they were welcome as a metrical flour- ish that could enliven the usual pattern . The initial variation was so com- mon that the sequence of trochee and iamb must often have been perceived as a double foot ( equivalent to ...
Pagina 12
... pause at the phrase boundaries . Of all English meters , iambic pentameter makes the most of diver- gences between the stress pattern of a line and the phrasal pattern . As we have already seen , the stresses need not be equal 12 ...
... pause at the phrase boundaries . Of all English meters , iambic pentameter makes the most of diver- gences between the stress pattern of a line and the phrasal pattern . As we have already seen , the stresses need not be equal 12 ...
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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