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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... speech . Many scholars have written about poetic meter in the Renaissance , but their interest has usually been technical , not aesthetic , and the subject has constituted a corner of poetic studies that has not much attracted liter ...
... speech . Many scholars have written about poetic meter in the Renaissance , but their interest has usually been technical , not aesthetic , and the subject has constituted a corner of poetic studies that has not much attracted liter ...
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... speech , with- out any effort to convey with their voices , even in passing , the grace and force of those words that move us so in the theater ; and when I hear gifted actors , blessed with the ability to speak the speech trippingly or ...
... speech , with- out any effort to convey with their voices , even in passing , the grace and force of those words that move us so in the theater ; and when I hear gifted actors , blessed with the ability to speak the speech trippingly or ...
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... speech generally is hard to say . What seems beyond dispute is that the trochaic and iambic currents of our speech find an appropriate arena in meter that is iambic rather than trochaic , and this is because iambic verse accommodates a ...
... speech generally is hard to say . What seems beyond dispute is that the trochaic and iambic currents of our speech find an appropriate arena in meter that is iambic rather than trochaic , and this is because iambic verse accommodates a ...
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... speech the frequent — and some- times regular and rhythmic — alternation of unstressed and stressed syl- lables , and that it mirrors our occasional tendency to use several of those two kinds of syllables in that order — a climactic ...
... speech the frequent — and some- times regular and rhythmic — alternation of unstressed and stressed syl- lables , and that it mirrors our occasional tendency to use several of those two kinds of syllables in that order — a climactic ...
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... speeches than even they were aware of . If the language of everyday life or even the language of other forms of poetry seems ... speech . What makes it even more speechlike is its uncanny capacity to vary the metrical norm without fun ...
... speeches than even they were aware of . If the language of everyday life or even the language of other forms of poetry seems ... speech . What makes it even more speechlike is its uncanny capacity to vary the metrical norm without fun ...
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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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