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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... writing . The breakdown of the iambic pentameter tradition seemed most intelligible if one studied its early tri- umphant development . As this book tries to suggest , the free verse line is not so much a departure from iambic ...
... writing . The breakdown of the iambic pentameter tradition seemed most intelligible if one studied its early tri- umphant development . As this book tries to suggest , the free verse line is not so much a departure from iambic ...
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... Writing about iambic pentameter involves a critic in 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 ...
... Writing about iambic pentameter involves a critic in 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 ...
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... writing verse , often metrical verse , has helped me understand meter from the point of view of the poet who composes it as well as from that of the reader . Music from my sister's piano filled the homes I grew up in . Singing in the ...
... writing verse , often metrical verse , has helped me understand meter from the point of view of the poet who composes it as well as from that of the reader . Music from my sister's piano filled the homes I grew up in . Singing in the ...
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... writing in English , lack the amplitude of the five - foot line and seem as a rule unable to survive the absence of rhyme , a defect which partly limits their power to seem convincingly speechlike . The same is even truer of forms made ...
... writing in English , lack the amplitude of the five - foot line and seem as a rule unable to survive the absence of rhyme , a defect which partly limits their power to seem convincingly speechlike . The same is even truer of forms made ...
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... writing iambic pentameter habitually permitted themselves to diverge from the meter in three conventional ways in order to give variety , interest , grace , and sometimes expressive character to their lines . Most poets used other means ...
... writing iambic pentameter habitually permitted themselves to diverge from the meter in three conventional ways in order to give variety , interest , grace , and sometimes expressive character to their lines . Most poets used other means ...
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