Shakespeare's Metrical ArtUniversity of California Press, 02.08.1988 - 363 Seiten 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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... kind of syllable that may appear either in a stressed or in an unstressed " position , " and that acquires interest and emotional resonance by being different from syllables we can more readily identify as either stressed or unstressed ...
... kind of syllable that may appear either in a stressed or in an unstressed " position , " and that acquires interest and emotional resonance by being different from syllables we can more readily identify as either stressed or unstressed ...
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... kind of shadow norm that we sense in poems , such as those of Ashbery , that point- edly steer clear of it . But from Shakespeare's time to the early nineteenth century ( and , except for the anapestic variant , 6 Shakespeare's Metrical ...
... kind of shadow norm that we sense in poems , such as those of Ashbery , that point- edly steer clear of it . But from Shakespeare's time to the early nineteenth century ( and , except for the anapestic variant , 6 Shakespeare's Metrical ...
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... kind of heroic adventure or even a haunted house . To be sure , the restoration of iambic meter in the twentieth century — by Yeats , Eliot , Stevens , Lowell , and others -- has constituted an impressive and relatively unnoticed ...
... kind of heroic adventure or even a haunted house . To be sure , the restoration of iambic meter in the twentieth century — by Yeats , Eliot , Stevens , Lowell , and others -- has constituted an impressive and relatively unnoticed ...
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... kind of spondee in Chaucer , which is directly attributable to his phonetic treatment of -e , helps to give his verse a special character of its own . It is not less expressive but differently expressive . Chaucer also uses trochaic ...
... kind of spondee in Chaucer , which is directly attributable to his phonetic treatment of -e , helps to give his verse a special character of its own . It is not less expressive but differently expressive . Chaucer also uses trochaic ...
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Inhalt
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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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