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 ix
... stanza measure the line in respect to units smaller or larger than the line . The meter of a line is its inner rhythmical structure , which in English we understand as a relationship between stressed and unstressed syllables . Since ...
... stanza measure the line in respect to units smaller or larger than the line . The meter of a line is its inner rhythmical structure , which in English we understand as a relationship between stressed and unstressed syllables . Since ...
Pagina x
... ( stanza ) —a dry subject that might seem hardly worthy of interest , but it is out of such structures and relations that poets like Wyatt and Shakespeare , Donne and Milton , achieved their powerful and passionate poetry . The intensity ...
... ( stanza ) —a dry subject that might seem hardly worthy of interest , but it is out of such structures and relations that poets like Wyatt and Shakespeare , Donne and Milton , achieved their powerful and passionate poetry . The intensity ...
Pagina 13
... stanza or a couplet or a passage of blank verse as a significant union of lines that flow into one another and compose a rhythmical unit larger than the isolated line . The Renaissance English poet habitually composed long poems in ...
... stanza or a couplet or a passage of blank verse as a significant union of lines that flow into one another and compose a rhythmical unit larger than the isolated line . The Renaissance English poet habitually composed long poems in ...
Pagina 14
... stanza has a comparable ease of movement , but it conveys a headlong excitement partly through its use of run - on ( or enjambed ) and short lines . The sense of Donne's breathless sentence spills over lines 5-6 and 7-8 ; not even the ...
... stanza has a comparable ease of movement , but it conveys a headlong excitement partly through its use of run - on ( or enjambed ) and short lines . The sense of Donne's breathless sentence spills over lines 5-6 and 7-8 ; not even the ...
Pagina 15
... stanza , as one of a pair of rhymed lines in a sequence of couplets , or in a passage of blank verse . It also depends on the degree to which it and its surrounding lines are end- stopped or enjambed — that is , on how much and how ...
... stanza , as one of a pair of rhymed lines in a sequence of couplets , or in a passage of blank verse . It also depends on the degree to which it and its surrounding lines are end- stopped or enjambed — that is , on how much and how ...
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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