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Shakespeare and the versification of English drama, 1561-1642 /

Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. Marina Tarlinskaja's statistical analysis of versification focuses on Shakespeare, but places his work in the literary context of the times. Her resu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tarlinskaja, Marina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why study versification? versification analyses
  • How it all began: from Surrey's Aeneid to Marlowe's Tamburlaine
  • Early Elizabethan playwrights: Kyd, Marlowe, Greene, Peele, early Shakespeare, Henry VI and Arden of Faversham
  • Shakespeare's versification: evolution. co-authored plays. A lover's complaint
  • Jacobean and Caroline playwrights: from Shakespeare to Shirley
  • Conclusions: versification 1540s-1640s.