Shakespeare's Metrical ArtUniversity of California Press, 02/08/1988 - 363 páginas 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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... complex prob- lems of interpretation and procedure , questions about how a poet writes , how a reader reads , how a listener in the theater hears , and on what evi- dence and following what procedures a critic classifies and interprets ...
... complex prob- lems of interpretation and procedure , questions about how a poet writes , how a reader reads , how a listener in the theater hears , and on what evi- dence and following what procedures a critic classifies and interprets ...
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... complex understanding , as if the speakers of such lines were aware of more than they ever quite say , or as if there were more in their speeches than even they were aware of . If the language of everyday life or even the language of ...
... complex understanding , as if the speakers of such lines were aware of more than they ever quite say , or as if there were more in their speeches than even they were aware of . If the language of everyday life or even the language of ...
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... complex sentence patterns , which drive through the metrical lines with an astonish- ing mixture of authority and deference . Renaissance readers of verse ( and even listeners in the theater ) were expected to follow the twin ...
... complex sentence patterns , which drive through the metrical lines with an astonish- ing mixture of authority and deference . Renaissance readers of verse ( and even listeners in the theater ) were expected to follow the twin ...
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Índice
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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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