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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... segments as they pass or to hear , with full consciousness , its collecting and dissolving structures . Analysis slows down the beautiful current in order to help us understand the principles of its flow . The reader who is already ...
... segments as they pass or to hear , with full consciousness , its collecting and dissolving structures . Analysis slows down the beautiful current in order to help us understand the principles of its flow . The reader who is already ...
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... segment of four beats and one of three followed by a 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 ...
... segment of four beats and one of three followed by a 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 ...
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... segments but two unequal ones : To witness duty , not to show my wit ( Shakespeare , Sonnet 26 : 4 ) Five syllables on either side of the break , but different numbers of stressed and unstressed syllables , so that , though we may hear ...
... segments but two unequal ones : To witness duty , not to show my wit ( Shakespeare , Sonnet 26 : 4 ) Five syllables on either side of the break , but different numbers of stressed and unstressed syllables , so that , though we may hear ...
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... segments ) , poets soon found that they could not persistently write lines in which all five stressed syllables were equally stressed and the un- stressed syllables equally unstressed . " Of hand , of foot , of lip , of eye , of brow ...
... segments ) , poets soon found that they could not persistently write lines in which all five stressed syllables were equally stressed and the un- stressed syllables equally unstressed . " Of hand , of foot , of lip , of eye , of brow ...
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... segments , as in Shakespeare's Where is thy head ? Where's that ? Ay me ! where's that ? ( Cymbeline , 4.2.321 ) or in the line Ben Jonson distributes among six speeches spoken by three characters : Face . Subtle . Bawd ! Cow - herd ...
... segments , as in Shakespeare's Where is thy head ? Where's that ? Ay me ! where's that ? ( Cymbeline , 4.2.321 ) or in the line Ben Jonson distributes among six speeches spoken by three characters : Face . Subtle . Bawd ! Cow - herd ...
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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