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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... earlier English verse , one encounters textual problems of every sort : In the absence of any speaker of Middle English , how can we know how Chaucer's verse sounded — to Chaucer , to Lydgate , or to Wyatt ? To what extent were the ...
... earlier English verse , one encounters textual problems of every sort : In the absence of any speaker of Middle English , how can we know how Chaucer's verse sounded — to Chaucer , to Lydgate , or to Wyatt ? To what extent were the ...
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... negotiation of the stress - values of syllables . Even if , as we said earlier , English syllables mainly alternate between two general levels of stress , as they appear in English words and phrases 7 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
... negotiation of the stress - values of syllables . Even if , as we said earlier , English syllables mainly alternate between two general levels of stress , as they appear in English words and phrases 7 The Iambic Pentameter Line.
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... earlier lines ( from the previous sonnets in the sequence ) and later ones in this poem adhere more unambiguously to the iambic design , so that our experience of this line is influenced by our iambic set . But the line is less ...
... earlier lines ( from the previous sonnets in the sequence ) and later ones in this poem adhere more unambiguously to the iambic design , so that our experience of this line is influenced by our iambic set . But the line is less ...
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George T. Wright. nistic free - verse structure on poetry of a much earlier period than our own . The view presented here is that poets do not compose verse in phrases rather than in lines , but in both at once ; it is in the play ...
George T. Wright. nistic free - verse structure on poetry of a much earlier period than our own . The view presented here is that poets do not compose verse in phrases rather than in lines , but in both at once ; it is in the play ...
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... earlier centuries , too , there are often striking differences between one poet's meter and another's or even between a poet's early and late metrical styles : Shakespeare and Milton are vivid examples . To say only that a poet writes ...
... earlier centuries , too , there are often striking differences between one poet's meter and another's or even between a poet's early and late metrical styles : Shakespeare and Milton are vivid examples . To say only that a poet writes ...
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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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