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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... contrast to the rough Wyatt , and Wyatt's strange meters are best approached through the bizarre system he derived from Lydgate , who in turn makes no sense apart from Chaucer . Chaucer constitutes a distinct beginning of the long ...
... contrast to the rough Wyatt , and Wyatt's strange meters are best approached through the bizarre system he derived from Lydgate , who in turn makes no sense apart from Chaucer . Chaucer constitutes a distinct beginning of the long ...
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... contrast— will significantly affect the movement and emphasis of metrical lines . When Macbeth tells his wife , in a trenchant figure , I dare do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more is none , ( Macbeth , 1.7.46-47 ) the ...
... contrast— will significantly affect the movement and emphasis of metrical lines . When Macbeth tells his wife , in a trenchant figure , I dare do all that may become a man ; Who dares do more is none , ( Macbeth , 1.7.46-47 ) the ...
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... contrast , appeared as a new dis- covery . Chaucer had virtually invented it ; since his time it had been lost or fumbled , then reinvented as a somewhat rigid meter , used in rime royal narratives , and declaimed rather woodenly on ...
... contrast , appeared as a new dis- covery . Chaucer had virtually invented it ; since his time it had been lost or fumbled , then reinvented as a somewhat rigid meter , used in rime royal narratives , and declaimed rather woodenly on ...
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... contrasts helps to give Chaucer's verse its zestful pace and tone . With so few points of stress in the typical line , the narrative speeds along , dashing past minor words and syllables and hitting the major ones sharply . In addition ...
... contrasts helps to give Chaucer's verse its zestful pace and tone . With so few points of stress in the typical line , the narrative speeds along , dashing past minor words and syllables and hitting the major ones sharply . In addition ...
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... contrasts in his syllables do not form a congenial metri- cal setting for Miltonic or even Shakespearean sound effects . Where Wyatt and later poets can quicken a phrase composed of monosyllabic adjective and noun : And softely said ...
... contrasts in his syllables do not form a congenial metri- cal setting for Miltonic or even Shakespearean sound effects . Where Wyatt and later poets can quicken a phrase composed of monosyllabic adjective and noun : And softely said ...
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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accentual actors anapests appear beat blank verse broken-backed line caesura Chapter characters Chaucer combinations Coriolanus couplets Cressida Donne Donne's dramatic verse effect elision Elizabethan enjambment epic caesura example expressive extra syllable feeling feet feminine endings foot Gascoigne half-line Hamlet headless hear Henry hexameter iambic line iambic pentameter iambic pentameter line iambs Julius Caesar King Lear language later plays later poets line-types line's Macbeth meter metrical pattern metrical variations metrists midline break minor words monosyllabic normal Othello passage pause phrasal playwrights poems poetic poetry prose punctuation pyrrhic readers regular rhetorical rhyme rhythm rhythmic Richard II scene seems segments sense sentence Shake Shakespeare shared lines short lines Sidney's sonnets sound speak speaker speare's speech speechlike Spenser spoken spondaic spondee stanza stressed position strong structure style syllables syntactical syntax theater thee thou tion trochaic trochee Troilus unstressed syllables usually verb verse lines voice vowels Wyatt