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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... usually designates a particular arrangement of lines ( a certain number of them in a design that may mix long lines and short , and with a specific patterning of rhymes ) , it is probably the best word we have to signify our more ...
... usually designates a particular arrangement of lines ( a certain number of them in a design that may mix long lines and short , and with a specific patterning of rhymes ) , it is probably the best word we have to signify our more ...
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... usually been technical , not aesthetic , and the subject has constituted a corner of poetic studies that has not much attracted liter- ary critics . In the nineteenth century it became a matter of concern to Shakespeareans only as a ...
... usually been technical , not aesthetic , and the subject has constituted a corner of poetic studies that has not much attracted liter- ary critics . In the nineteenth century it became a matter of concern to Shakespeareans only as a ...
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... usually had little understanding of these resources , and the chapters of this large book try to treat this heroic subject with something of the passion for system , for pattern , and for expression that marks the poets themselves . The ...
... usually had little understanding of these resources , and the chapters of this large book try to treat this heroic subject with something of the passion for system , for pattern , and for expression that marks the poets themselves . The ...
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... usually followed Booth's edition , except when the original punctuation has seemed to offer a metri- cal hint . In the same way , I have used The Riverside Shakespeare as the principal source of quotations ( and of all line numbers ) ...
... usually followed Booth's edition , except when the original punctuation has seemed to offer a metri- cal hint . In the same way , I have used The Riverside Shakespeare as the principal source of quotations ( and of all line numbers ) ...
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... usually be more aware of a quick succession of syllables with contrasting degrees of stress than of an insistent series of iambs ; it is easier to notice the alternation than to say whether at any point the rhythm is iambic or trochaic ...
... usually be more aware of a quick succession of syllables with contrasting degrees of stress than of an insistent series of iambs ; it is easier to notice the alternation than to say whether at any point the rhythm is iambic or trochaic ...
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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