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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... Variation 4 Flexibility and Ease in Four Older Poets ix I 20 38 57 5 An Art of Small Differences : Shakespeare's Sonnets 75 6 The Verse of Shakespeare's Theater 91 7 Prose and Other Diversions 108 8 Short and Shared Lines 116 9 Long ...
... Variation 4 Flexibility and Ease in Four Older Poets ix I 20 38 57 5 An Art of Small Differences : Shakespeare's Sonnets 75 6 The Verse of Shakespeare's Theater 91 7 Prose and Other Diversions 108 8 Short and Shared Lines 116 9 Long ...
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... variation . Once we can hear the basic pattern , we can recognize it as it is realized differently in all the succeeding lines ; we listen for the returning pattern . Although the term stanza usually designates a particular arrangement ...
... variation . Once we can hear the basic pattern , we can recognize it as it is realized differently in all the succeeding lines ; we listen for the returning pattern . Although the term stanza usually designates a particular arrangement ...
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George T. Wright. Darwin revolutionized our study of nature by taking the actual variation among actual things as central to the reality , not as an annoying and irrelevant disturbance to be wished away . R. C. LEWONTIN ( 27 ) And in ...
George T. Wright. Darwin revolutionized our study of nature by taking the actual variation among actual things as central to the reality , not as an annoying and irrelevant disturbance to be wished away . R. C. LEWONTIN ( 27 ) And in ...
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... verse accommodates a wide range of metrical variations and trochaic verse does not , though why this should be so is again mysterious . ' Patterns we find in poetry always derive from patterns we I 1 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
... verse accommodates a wide range of metrical variations and trochaic verse does not , though why this should be so is again mysterious . ' Patterns we find in poetry always derive from patterns we I 1 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
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... variation from the regular pattern . But the effect of these com- plicating factors is both to bring iambic poetry nearer to spoken English and , for purposes of emotional intensification , to jeopardize our percep- tion of the strict ...
... variation from the regular pattern . But the effect of these com- plicating factors is both to bring iambic poetry nearer to spoken English and , for purposes of emotional intensification , to jeopardize our percep- tion of the strict ...
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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