Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance / O.B. Hardison, Jr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524694503321
• Autore: Hardison O. B., Jr. (Osborne Bennett), <1928-1990.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019; Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 1989; ©1989
• ISBN: 0-8018-3722-7; 1-4214-3051-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 342 p. )
• Disciplina: 821/.3/09
• Soggetti: Literary form; Classicism - England; Renaissance - England; English poetry - Classical influences; Verse drama, English - History and criticism; Epic poetry, English - History and criticism; English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Versification; English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One: Contexts -- Chapter I: Prosody and Purpose -- Preliminary Concepts -- Prosodic Systems -- The Syllabic Aspect of English Renaissance Verse -- The Metrical Ambivalence of English Verse -- Historical Perspective -- Music and Prosody -- Chapter II: Ars Metrica -- Meter, Genre, Music -- Grammar and Prosody (1): Construction and Metaplasm -- Grammar and Prosody (2): Standard Approaches -- Grammar and Prosody (3): Donatus and the Metrical Foot -- Diomedes and Poetic Art -- Bede and Rhythmic Poetry -- Chapter III: Rude and Beggerly Ryming: The Romance Tradition -- Ars Rithmica -- From Accentual to Syllabic Verse -- Parisiana Poetria -- L'Art de Dictier -- The Pléiade and the Rejection of Medieval Tradition -- Reactions: Tradition and Radical Change -- ; Chapter IV: A Question of Language: Italy and the Shaping of Renaissance Prosodic Theory -- Vernacular Eloquence -- The Heritage of the Trecento -- Courtly Vernacular and Rational Speech -- Trissino: Traditional and Classical Prosody -- Giraldi Cintio: Classical Form and Vernacular Prosody -- Tolomei and Quantitative Verse -- A Note on Annibale Caro's Aeneid -- Chapter V: Notes of Instruction -- Esoteric Humanism -- Ascham and the Question of English -- Prosodia: Lily and Brinsley -- Palsgrave and Ascham: "Trew Quantitie -- Gascoigne: Mother Phrase and Proper Idióma -- Hard Classicism: Harvey, Webbe, Campion -- The Middle Road: Syllable and Accent -- Daniel and the Native Tradition -- Part Two: Performances -- Chapter VI: A Straunge Metre Worthy To Be Embraced -- Heroic Aspirations -- A Straunge Metre -- The Death of Dido -- Surrey and His Editors -- Chapter VII: Jasper Heywood's Fourteeners -- The Seneca Project -- Comic and Tragic Verse at Midcentury -- Thyestes -- Chapter VIII: Gorboduc and Dramatic Blank Verse, with a Note on Comedy.; Imperatives of State and of Performance -- Speech as Speaking -- Speech as Speeches -- A Note on Comedy -- Classical Trends -- Gascoigne and Comic Dialogue in Prose -- Chapter IX : Heroic Experiments -- Thomas Phaer and Moderate Classicism -- Richard Stanyhurstc and the Classical Absurd -- Chapman and Homer -- Spenser and the Return to Romance -- Davenant and the Rational Quatrain -- Chapter X: Speech and Verse in Later Elizabethan Drama -- Actorly Speech -- Opsis and Illocution -- The Mirror of Custom -- Renaissance Comments on Dramatic Verse and on Acting -- Marlowe's Mighty Line -- Kyd and Shakespeare -- Verse and Memory -- Chapter XI : True Musical Delight -- Music and Muse -- Prosody and the Irrational -- The Note on the Verse of Paradise Lost -- Tagging the Verse -- Notes -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally published in 1989. In Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance the eminent scholar O. B. Hardison Jr. sets out "to recover the special kinds of music inherent in English Renaissance poetry." The book begins with a thorough and wide-ranging survey of the development of prosodic theory from the ancient ars metrica tradition to the sixteenth century, with special emphasis on such issues as the relation of verse form and genre, the relation of syntax to prosody, and the role of language reform in shaping Renaissance prosody. The second part of the book considers the impact of prosodic traditions on specific literary works and verse forms, among them Surrey's Aeneid, Heywood's translation of Seneca's Thyestes, Sackville and Norton's Gorboduc, and the dramatic and epic verse of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Throughout, Hardison examines not only how poets crafted their verse but why. He explores authorial purposes ranging from technical attempts to match sound and genre to the lofty aims of improving the vernacular or ennobling culture, from the dramatist's practical search for verse forms suited to the stage to Milton's quest for a meter fit to convey divine relation.