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Shakespeare's Metrical Art /
This 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 express...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1991.
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| Edición: | 1st pbk. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface; 1 The Iambic Pentameter Line; 2 Chaucer and Wyatt: Early Expressive Pentameters; 3 The Sixteenth-Century Line: Pattern and Variation; 4 Flexibility and Ease in Four Older Poets; 5 An Art of Small Differences: Shakespeare's Sonnets; 6 The Verse of Shakespeare's Theater; 7 Prose and Other Diversions; 8 Short and Shared Lines; 9 Long Lines; 10 Shakespeare's Syllabic Ambiguity: More Than Meets the Ear; 11 Lines with Extra Syllables; 12 Lines with Omitted Syllables; 13 Trochees; 14 The Play of Phrase and Line; 15 Shakespeare's Metrical Technique in Dramatic Passages.
- 16 What Else Shakespeare's Meter Reveals17 Some Metrically Expressive Features in Donne and Milton; 18 Conclusion: Verse as Speech, Theater, Text, Tradition, Illusion; Appendix A: Percentage Distribution of Prose in Shakespeare's Plays; Appendix B: Main Types of Deviant Lines in Shakespeare's Plays; Appendix C: Short and Shared Lines; Notes; Main Works Cited or Consulted; Index.