03444nam 2200685 a 450 991045554620332120210429234742.01-282-35496-597866123549600-520-91193-810.1525/9780520911932(CKB)1000000000767032(EBL)470897(OCoLC)609850019(SSID)ssj0000442318(PQKBManifestationID)11282696(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000442318(PQKBWorkID)10446928(PQKB)10014986(SSID)ssj0000365805(PQKBManifestationID)11285451(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000365805(PQKBWorkID)10423073(PQKB)11346908(MiAaPQ)EBC470897(OCoLC)841168952(MdBmJHUP)muse30691(DE-B1597)519006(DE-B1597)9780520911932(Au-PeEL)EBL470897(CaPaEBR)ebr10676270(CaONFJC)MIL235496(EXLCZ)99100000000076703219870424d1988 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierShakespeare's metrical art[electronic resource] /George T. WrightBerkeley University of California Press19881 online resource (366 p.)Includes index.0-520-06057-1 0-520-07642-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexThis 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.English languageEarly modern, 1500-1700VersificationElectronic books.English languageVersification.822.3/3Wright George Thaddeus553249MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455546203321Shakespeare's metrical art2464322UNINA