Shakespeare's Metrical ArtUniversity of California Press, 2. 8. 1988. - 363 страница 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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... metrical skill contributed to fine effects . But the expressive metrical technique of only a few major poets has been described at length by critics whose interest has been equally in prosodic structure and aesthetic purpose — for ...
... metrical skill contributed to fine effects . But the expressive metrical technique of only a few major poets has been described at length by critics whose interest has been equally in prosodic structure and aesthetic purpose — for ...
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... metrical expressiveness . My main purpose here is to describe the metrical system Shakespeare uses , particularly in his plays -- the basic forms of his iambic pentameter line , its relation to other patterns ( such as short lines ...
... metrical expressiveness . My main purpose here is to describe the metrical system Shakespeare uses , particularly in his plays -- the basic forms of his iambic pentameter line , its relation to other patterns ( such as short lines ...
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... metrical history , and by contemporary and later readers and listeners , to come into existence . My aim is not to arrive at true readings , but to show the extraordinarily vast range of metrical re- sources English poets of this period ...
... metrical history , and by contemporary and later readers and listeners , to come into existence . My aim is not to arrive at true readings , but to show the extraordinarily vast range of metrical re- sources English poets of this period ...
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... metrical clues to the meaning of the verse because they are unaware of the metrical principles on which it rests , I cannot help believing that a better understanding of those principles may encourage some readers , scholars , and ...
... metrical clues to the meaning of the verse because they are unaware of the metrical principles on which it rests , I cannot help believing that a better understanding of those principles may encourage some readers , scholars , and ...
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... metrical balance to accompany it . The result is very different in feeling from , say , Browning's shorter line , “ So might I gain , so might I miss ” ( “ The Last Ride Together , ” line 40 ) , where the metrical break and balance ...
... metrical balance to accompany it . The result is very different in feeling from , say , Browning's shorter line , “ So might I gain , so might I miss ” ( “ The Last Ride Together , ” line 40 ) , where the metrical break and balance ...
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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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