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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... effects in their poetic 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 ...
... effects in their poetic 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 ...
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... effect , iambic pentameter recognizes and incorporates an intermediate kind of syllable that may appear either in a stressed or in an unstressed " position , " and that acquires interest and emotional resonance by being different from ...
... effect , iambic pentameter recognizes and incorporates an intermediate kind of syllable that may appear either in a stressed or in an unstressed " position , " and that acquires interest and emotional resonance by being different from ...
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... effect of these com- plicating factors is both to bring iambic poetry nearer to spoken English and , for purposes of emotional intensification , to jeopardize our percep- tion of the strict accentual - syllabic pattern . It is ...
... effect of these com- plicating factors is both to bring iambic poetry nearer to spoken English and , for purposes of emotional intensification , to jeopardize our percep- tion of the strict accentual - syllabic pattern . It is ...
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... effect . Rhymed verse sets up an expectation of pattern ; in stanzas the expectation is usually fulfilled after an interval ; in couplets , much sooner . The waiting time is shorter , and the matching rhyme must come with comparative ...
... effect . Rhymed verse sets up an expectation of pattern ; in stanzas the expectation is usually fulfilled after an interval ; in couplets , much sooner . The waiting time is shorter , and the matching rhyme must come with comparative ...
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... effect is usually to make the line move quickly and to direct emphasis to a small number of strongly stressed syllables . or a . In the lines just quoted we can see Chaucer using a high proportion of small words whose rhetorical ...
... effect is usually to make the line move quickly and to direct emphasis to a small number of strongly stressed syllables . or a . In the lines just quoted we can see Chaucer using a high proportion of small words whose rhetorical ...
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