Shakespeare's Metrical ArtUniversity of California Press, 1988 M08 2 - 363 páginas 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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... meter and 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 ...
... meter and 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 ...
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... ( meter ) and connected them with each other ( 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 ...
... ( meter ) and connected them with each other ( 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 ...
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... meter in nineteenth- and twentieth- century poetry — I hope to trace more briefly in another book . Writing about iambic pentameter involves a critic in complex prob- lems of interpretation and procedure , questions about how a poet ...
... meter in nineteenth- and twentieth- century poetry — I hope to trace more briefly in another book . Writing about iambic pentameter involves a critic in complex prob- lems of interpretation and procedure , questions about how a poet ...
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... meter , to hear how much of human feeling is involved in its 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 ...
... meter , to hear how much of human feeling is involved in its 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 ...
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... meters , and this is undoubtedly true , especially of its blank verse form . Whether it is true because English is a ... meter that is iambic rather than trochaic , and this is because iambic verse accommodates a wide range of metrical ...
... meters , and this is undoubtedly true , especially of its blank verse form . Whether it is true because English is a ... meter that is iambic rather than trochaic , and this is because iambic verse accommodates a wide range of metrical ...
Contenido
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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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