Shakespeare's Metrical ArtThis 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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... Play of Phrase and Line 207 15 Shakespeare's Metrical Technique in Dramatic Passages 229 16 What Else Shakespeare's Meter Reveals 249 17 Some ... Shakespeare's Plays 291 Appendix B : Main Types of Deviant Lines in Shakespeare's vii Contents.
... Play of Phrase and Line 207 15 Shakespeare's Metrical Technique in Dramatic Passages 229 16 What Else Shakespeare's Meter Reveals 249 17 Some ... Shakespeare's Plays 291 Appendix B : Main Types of Deviant Lines in Shakespeare's vii Contents.
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George T. Wright. Appendix B : Main Types of Deviant Lines in Shakespeare's Plays Appendix C : Short and Shared Lines Notes Main Works Cited or Consulted Index viii 292 294 297 325 339 Preface Poetry is language composed in verse , that is ...
George T. Wright. Appendix B : Main Types of Deviant Lines in Shakespeare's Plays Appendix C : Short and Shared Lines Notes Main Works Cited or Consulted Index viii 292 294 297 325 339 Preface Poetry is language composed in verse , that is ...
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... plays and with the way poets of this period , and Shakespeare in particular , structured their lines ( meter ) and connected them with each other ( stanza ) —a dry subject that might seem hardly worthy of interest , but it is out of ...
... plays and with the way poets of this period , and Shakespeare in particular , structured their lines ( meter ) and connected them with each other ( stanza ) —a dry subject that might seem hardly worthy of interest , but it is out of ...
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... Shakespeare uses , particularly in his plays -- the basic forms of his iambic pentameter line , its relation to other patterns ( such as short lines , long lines , and prose ) , its changes over his career , and , most of all , the ...
... Shakespeare uses , particularly in his plays -- the basic forms of his iambic pentameter line , its relation to other patterns ( such as short lines , long lines , and prose ) , its changes over his career , and , most of all , the ...
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... Shakespeare as the principal source of quotations ( and of all line numbers ) from the plays and from other poems by Shakespeare , but have sometimes preferred the Folio ( or , rarely , a Quarto ) reading for specific passages . I have ...
... Shakespeare as the principal source of quotations ( and of all line numbers ) from the plays and from other poems by Shakespeare , but have sometimes preferred the Folio ( or , rarely , a Quarto ) reading for specific passages . I have ...
Contents
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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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