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Wright George Thaddeus |
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Shakespeare's metrical art [[electronic resource] /] / George T. Wright |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1988 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-35496-5 |
9786612354960 |
0-520-91193-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (366 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Versification |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- 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 Reveals -- 17. 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 expressiveness of his characters' stage language. |
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