Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance / O.B. Hardison, Jr
| Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance / O.B. Hardison, Jr |
| Autore | Hardison O. B., Jr. (Osborne Bennett), <1928-1990.> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvi, 342 p. ) |
| Disciplina | 821/.3/09 |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-8018-3722-7
1-4214-3051-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
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Hardison O. B., Jr. (Osborne Bennett), <1928-1990.>
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| Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 | ||
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Shakespeare's metrical art [[electronic resource] /] / George T. Wright
| Shakespeare's metrical art [[electronic resource] /] / George T. Wright |
| Autore | Wright George Thaddeus |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1988 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Soggetto topico | English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Versification |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-35496-5
9786612354960 0-520-91193-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455546203321 |
Wright George Thaddeus
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1988 | ||
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Shakespeare's metrical art [[electronic resource] /] / George T. Wright
| Shakespeare's metrical art [[electronic resource] /] / George T. Wright |
| Autore | Wright George Thaddeus |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1988 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Soggetto topico | English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Versification |
| Soggetto non controllato |
academic
accentual chaucer creative writing iambic pentameter line of poetry literary analysis literary history meter metrical style metrical milton pentameter poet poetic analysis poetic forms poetic line poetic meter poetic poetry collection poetry reference book poetry studies poetry rhythm scansion scholarly shakespeare sidney writing poetry |
| ISBN |
1-282-35496-5
9786612354960 0-520-91193-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778069703321 |
Wright George Thaddeus
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1988 | ||
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Shakespearean language [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for actors and students / / Leslie O'Dell
| Shakespearean language [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for actors and students / / Leslie O'Dell |
| Autore | O'Dell Leslie |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Pronunciation
English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Versification |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-70825-5
9786610708253 0-313-00694-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454987503321 |
O'Dell Leslie
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| Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2002 | ||
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Shakespearean language [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for actors and students / / Leslie O'Dell
| Shakespearean language [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for actors and students / / Leslie O'Dell |
| Autore | O'Dell Leslie |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Pronunciation
English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Versification |
| ISBN |
1-280-70825-5
9786610708253 0-313-00694-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779954103321 |
O'Dell Leslie
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| Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2002 | ||
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Shakespearean language : a guide for actors and students / / Leslie O'Dell
| Shakespearean language : a guide for actors and students / / Leslie O'Dell |
| Autore | O'Dell Leslie |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Soggetto topico |
English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Pronunciation
English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Versification |
| ISBN |
9798216014096
9786610708253 9781280708251 1280708255 9780313006944 0313006946 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Sound and Fury -- An Actor's Guide to Shakespeare's Verse -- Scansion -- The Sonnets -- Developing the Inner Ear -- The Flow of Thought and Feeling -- Putting It on Its Feet -- Messages in the Code -- Rhetoric -- Acquiring an Elizabethan Rhetorical Facility -- Structuring Argument -- Tangled Webs -- Recommended Reading -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Plays and Characters. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910971106103321 |
O'Dell Leslie
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| Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2002 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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