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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... sometimes preferred the Folio ( or , rarely , a Quarto ) reading for specific passages . I have kept the original spelling for some poets , like Wyatt , Spenser , and Donne , where it some- times provides metrical hints , but have used ...
... sometimes preferred the Folio ( or , rarely , a Quarto ) reading for specific passages . I have kept the original spelling for some poets , like Wyatt , Spenser , and Donne , where it some- times provides metrical hints , but have used ...
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... sometimes set themselves the exercise of writing an iambic pen- tameter line with the balance that is natural to a more symmetrical line : I shall find time , Cassius ; I shall find time Twelve year since , Miranda , twelve year since ...
... sometimes set themselves the exercise of writing an iambic pen- tameter line with the balance that is natural to a more symmetrical line : I shall find time , Cassius ; I shall find time Twelve year since , Miranda , twelve year since ...
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... sometimes expressive character to their lines . Most poets used other means as well -- midline pauses and endline enjambments — but these are the three metrical variations that almost every poet writing in English has understood to be ...
... sometimes expressive character to their lines . Most poets used other means as well -- midline pauses and endline enjambments — but these are the three metrical variations that almost every poet writing in English has understood to be ...
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... sometimes take radi- cally opposed views of its principles or its practice . This is not the place to enter into lengthy theoretical dispute with metrists of different persua- sions . Later passages and notes will do so occasionally ...
... sometimes take radi- cally opposed views of its principles or its practice . This is not the place to enter into lengthy theoretical dispute with metrists of different persua- sions . Later passages and notes will do so occasionally ...
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... Shakespeare in his sonnets , Jonson , and others have sometimes struggled to achieve those harmonies later readers have justly admired . Probably any great meter or poet must develop in this 17 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
... Shakespeare in his sonnets , Jonson , and others have sometimes struggled to achieve those harmonies later readers have justly admired . Probably any great meter or poet must develop in this 17 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
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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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