The Tempo-patterns of Shakespeare's Plays

actor Angelo appears Arcandam Ariel Brabantio Brutus Caliban Cassio choleric comedy computation consistent contrasts of tempo crest Dariot Desdemona dialogue divided drama Duke Elizabethan emotional evidence of tempo express fast and slow faster fastest scene Ferdinand final scene follows Gloucester Hamlet Humors and Shakespeare's Iago jerky Julius Caesar King King Lear Laertes last scene Lear legato less lines ratios Love's Labor's lyrical Macbeth Measure for Measure melancholy Miranda Othello patterns of tempo perhaps phlegmatic plot present writer prose passages Prospero rapid ratio of 1:1 retardation Richard Richard II rise and fall Romeo and Juliet rubato rhythm runs sanguine humor scene by scene Scene ii scene shows second period sections Shakespeare short significant situation slow tempo slower slowest scene slurrings soliloquy speakers speaks style suggests syllables Tempest tempo falls tempo rises tempo seems tempo-patterns Timon Timon of Athens tragedy variation verse waves of speed whole