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
... structure , which in English we understand as a relationship between stressed and unstressed syllables . Since poems do not normally change their meter in every line but establish and confirm re- petitive rhythmical patterns , often we ...
... structure , which in English we understand as a relationship between stressed and unstressed syllables . Since poems do not normally change their meter in every line but establish and confirm re- petitive rhythmical patterns , often we ...
Pagina x
... structures and relations that poets like Wyatt and Shakespeare , Donne and Milton , achieved their powerful and passionate ... structure and not on ex- pressive function , the meter Shakespeare used over his whole career has hardly been ...
... structures and relations that poets like Wyatt and Shakespeare , Donne and Milton , achieved their powerful and passionate ... structure and not on ex- pressive function , the meter Shakespeare used over his whole career has hardly been ...
Pagina xii
... structures . Analysis slows down the beautiful current in order to help us understand the principles of its flow . The reader who is already deeply sensitive to the sound of verse lines and their move- ment in time may justly feel ...
... structures . Analysis slows down the beautiful current in order to help us understand the principles of its flow . The reader who is already deeply sensitive to the sound of verse lines and their move- ment in time may justly feel ...
Pagina xiii
... structures , and , when the occasion calls , to speak the verse with a finer sense of its rise and flow . In citing lines from Shakespeare's Sonnets , I have usually followed Booth's edition , except when the original punctuation has ...
... structures , and , when the occasion calls , to speak the verse with a finer sense of its rise and flow . In citing lines from Shakespeare's Sonnets , I have usually followed Booth's edition , except when the original punctuation has ...
Pagina 7
... structure of iambic meter . At a length as long as pentameter but no longer ( not so long as to have to break repeatedly into smaller segments ) , poets soon found that they could not persistently write lines in which all five stressed ...
... structure of iambic meter . At a length as long as pentameter but no longer ( not so long as to have to break repeatedly into smaller segments ) , poets soon found that they could not persistently write lines in which all five stressed ...
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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