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 xi
... a centuries - long process that has followed its own strong logic . Only part of that process is described here — from its beginnings in Chaucer to the great confluence of English phrase and metrical line in xi Preface.
... a centuries - long process that has followed its own strong logic . Only part of that process is described here — from its beginnings in Chaucer to the great confluence of English phrase and metrical line in xi Preface.
Pagina 7
... strong syllables are stronger than others , some weak ones weaker than others . To take a line at random from Spenser's The Faerie Queene : But he is old , and withered like hay ( III.ix.5.1 ) Even with the poet's implied directive to ...
... strong syllables are stronger than others , some weak ones weaker than others . To take a line at random from Spenser's The Faerie Queene : But he is old , and withered like hay ( III.ix.5.1 ) Even with the poet's implied directive to ...
Pagina 8
... 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 syllable in a weak position notably strengthened , a ...
... 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 syllable in a weak position notably strengthened , a ...
Pagina 10
... strong . Weak level stress is pyrrhic , strong is spondaic ; for intermediate we have no traditional name , but it frequently occurs ( see Chapter 13 ) , as we will hear in this line if we give it a natural reading : Ay , that's the ...
... strong . Weak level stress is pyrrhic , strong is spondaic ; for intermediate we have no traditional name , but it frequently occurs ( see Chapter 13 ) , as we will hear in this line if we give it a natural reading : Ay , that's the ...
Pagina 11
... strong speech stresses we can distinguish the one that receives a metrical pulse from the one that does not . Thus , we do not read this line as a four - stress one : When to the sessions of sweet silent thought If we do , the line ...
... strong speech stresses we can distinguish the one that receives a metrical pulse from the one that does not . Thus , we do not read this line as a four - stress one : When to the sessions of sweet silent thought If we do , the 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