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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... iambic pentameter line , its relation to other patterns ( such as short lines , long lines , and prose ) , its ... iambic writing . The breakdown of the iambic pentameter tradition seemed most intelligible if one studied its early tri ...
... iambic pentameter line , its relation to other patterns ( such as short lines , long lines , and prose ) , its ... iambic writing . The breakdown of the iambic pentameter tradition seemed most intelligible if one studied its early tri ...
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George T. Wright. CHAPTER 1 The Iambic Pentameter Line When Shakespeare and Marlowe and Ben Jonson sat around the Mermaid Tavern and talked like we are doing , iambic pentameter was wonderfully new and timely . ( WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ...
George T. Wright. CHAPTER 1 The Iambic Pentameter Line When Shakespeare and Marlowe and Ben Jonson sat around the Mermaid Tavern and talked like we are doing , iambic pentameter was wonderfully new and timely . ( WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS ...
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... iambic pentameter helps to make this meter sound more speechlike than any other . In effect , iambic pentameter recognizes and incorporates an intermediate kind of syllable that may appear either in a stressed or in an unstressed ...
... iambic pentameter helps to make this meter sound more speechlike than any other . In effect , iambic pentameter recognizes and incorporates an intermediate kind of syllable that may appear either in a stressed or in an unstressed ...
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... iambic lines , on the other hand , though they constitute a significant resource for poets writing in English , lack the amplitude of the five - foot line and seem as a rule unable to survive the absence of rhyme ... Iambic Pentameter Line.
... iambic lines , on the other hand , though they constitute a significant resource for poets writing in English , lack the amplitude of the five - foot line and seem as a rule unable to survive the absence of rhyme ... Iambic Pentameter Line.
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... pentameter ) . It is probably because of these numerical oddities and our perceptual response to them that iambic pentameter , except in the hands of its dullest practitioners , keeps the most highly patterned language from sounding ...
... pentameter ) . It is probably because of these numerical oddities and our perceptual response to them that iambic pentameter , except in the hands of its dullest practitioners , keeps the most highly patterned language from sounding ...
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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Palavras e frases frequentes
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