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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... probably the best word we have to signify our more general interest in the way lines combine to form larger prosodic units . Meter lets us hear the line's inner relations , stanza its outer connections . This book is chiefly concerned ...
... probably the best word we have to signify our more general interest in the way lines combine to form larger prosodic units . Meter lets us hear the line's inner relations , stanza its outer connections . This book is chiefly concerned ...
Pagina 6
... probably because of these numerical oddities and our perceptual response to them that iambic pentameter , except in the hands of its dullest practitioners , keeps the most highly patterned language from sounding trivial . It can lend ...
... probably because of these numerical oddities and our perceptual response to them that iambic pentameter , except in the hands of its dullest practitioners , keeps the most highly patterned language from sounding trivial . It can lend ...
Pagina 7
... Probably , too , " he " is somewhat more lightly stressed . On the other hand , " like " would probably , in anyone's recitation of the line , receive more emphasis ( be said louder , or more sharply , or at a higher pitch , or take ...
... Probably , too , " he " is somewhat more lightly stressed . On the other hand , " like " would probably , in anyone's recitation of the line , receive more emphasis ( be said louder , or more sharply , or at a higher pitch , or take ...
Pagina 8
... probably not much notice the small differences between strong or between weak syllables and will keep on hearing the iambic current . But when a syllable that appears to be in one of the strong positions is substantially weakened or a ...
... probably not much notice the small differences between strong or between weak syllables and will keep on hearing the iambic current . But when a syllable that appears to be in one of the strong positions is substantially weakened or a ...
Pagina 17
... Spenser , Shakespeare in his sonnets , Jonson , and others have sometimes struggled to achieve those harmonies later readers have justly admired . Probably any great meter or poet must develop in this 17 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
... Spenser , Shakespeare in his sonnets , Jonson , and others have sometimes struggled to achieve those harmonies later readers have justly admired . Probably any great meter or poet must develop in this 17 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
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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