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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... sentence , an order that seems to move along , to say what it has to say , without noticing the metrical pattern . But we as listeners have the opportunity to observe and to hear both orders of language alive in the same words . If this ...
... sentence , an order that seems to move along , to say what it has to say , without noticing the metrical pattern . But we as listeners have the opportunity to observe and to hear both orders of language alive in the same words . If this ...
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... sentence spills over lines 5-6 and 7-8 ; not even the rhyme can hold back the voice ; it seems , on the contrary , to be powering its way past rhymes to its highly animated and outrageous assertion . Much of the metrical inter- est of ...
... sentence spills over lines 5-6 and 7-8 ; not even the rhyme can hold back the voice ; it seems , on the contrary , to be powering its way past rhymes to its highly animated and outrageous assertion . Much of the metrical inter- est of ...
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... sentence patterns , which drive through the metrical lines with an astonish- ing mixture of authority and deference . Renaissance readers of verse ( and even listeners in the theater ) were expected to follow the twin authorities of ...
... sentence patterns , which drive through the metrical lines with an astonish- ing mixture of authority and deference . Renaissance readers of verse ( and even listeners in the theater ) were expected to follow the twin authorities of ...
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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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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