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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... actors , a dramatic poem , or a contrivance of a hundred editors ? Is it the written text ( and which one ? ) or the patterned language we listen to in the theater ( and in which performance ) ? For a blind poet , what constitutes a ...
... actors , a dramatic poem , or a contrivance of a hundred editors ? Is it the written text ( and which one ? ) or the patterned language we listen to in the theater ( and in which performance ) ? For a blind poet , what constitutes a ...
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... actors , blessed with the ability to speak the speech trippingly or , when appropriate , with due gravity , mislay the accents , omit words or change keys , and ignore the metrical clues to the meaning of the verse because they are ...
... actors , blessed with the ability to speak the speech trippingly or , when appropriate , with due gravity , mislay the accents , omit words or change keys , and ignore the metrical clues to the meaning of the verse because they are ...
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... from many productions , when Othello says , " Put out the light , and then put out the light " ( Othello , 5.2.7 ) , the actor may make a pause of some length after the fourth syllable , but 3 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
... from many productions , when Othello says , " Put out the light , and then put out the light " ( Othello , 5.2.7 ) , the actor may make a pause of some length after the fourth syllable , but 3 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
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... actors ( As I foretold you ) were all spirits , and Are melted into air , into thin air Long time in even scale The battle hung , till Satan , who that day Prodigious power had shown , and met in arms No equal , ranging through the dire ...
... actors ( As I foretold you ) were all spirits , and Are melted into air , into thin air Long time in even scale The battle hung , till Satan , who that day Prodigious power had shown , and met in arms No equal , ranging through the dire ...
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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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