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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... sense of one line runs over to the next , it is important to the form of a poem that the lines be preserved intact . If the line is the basic unit of a poetic text , meter and stanza measure the line in respect to units smaller or ...
... sense of one line runs over to the next , it is important to the form of a poem that the lines be preserved intact . If the line is the basic unit of a poetic text , meter and stanza measure the line in respect to units smaller or ...
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... sense apart from Chaucer . Chaucer constitutes a distinct beginning of the long tradition that culmi- nates in Shakespeare and takes extravagant turns in Donne and Milton . Although Shakespeare's metrical practice can be described in ...
... sense apart from Chaucer . Chaucer constitutes a distinct beginning of the long tradition that culmi- nates in Shakespeare and takes extravagant turns in Donne and Milton . Although Shakespeare's metrical practice can be described in ...
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... sense of their difference from ordinary 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 ...
... sense of their difference from ordinary 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 ...
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... ( - ) or unstressed ( w ) in any absolute sense , but only in relation to the essentially dual levels of stress established by each word - string . 3 This is not to say , however , that every syllable is 2 Shakespeare's Metrical Art.
... ( - ) or unstressed ( w ) in any absolute sense , but only in relation to the essentially dual levels of stress established by each word - string . 3 This is not to say , however , that every syllable is 2 Shakespeare's Metrical Art.
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... sense 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 ...
... sense 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 ...
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