Shakespeare's Metrical Art
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Shakespeare's Metrical Art

  1. 363 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Shakespeare's Metrical Art

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1 The Iambic Pentameter Line
  4. 2 Chaucer and Wyatt: Early Expressive Pentameters
  5. 3 The Sixteenth-Century Line: Pattern and Variation
  6. 4 Flexibility and Ease in Four Older Poets
  7. 5 An Art of Small Differences: Shakespeare's Sonnets
  8. 6 The Verse of Shakespeare's Theater
  9. 7 Prose and Other Diversions
  10. 8 Short and Shared Lines
  11. 9 Long Lines
  12. 10 Shakespeare's Syllabic Ambiguity: More Than Meets the Ear
  13. 11 Lines with Extra Syllables
  14. 12 Lines with Omitted Syllables
  15. 13 Trochees
  16. 14 The Play of Phrase and Line
  17. 15 Shakespeare's Metrical Technique in Dramatic Passages
  18. 16 What Else Shakespeare's Meter Reveals
  19. 17 Some Metrically Expressive Features in Donne and Milton
  20. 18 Conclusion: Verse as Speech, Theater, Text, Tradition, Illusion
  21. Appendix A: Percentage Distribution of Prose in Shakespeare's Plays
  22. Appendix B: Main Types of Deviant Lines in Shakespeare's Plays
  23. Appendix C: Short and Shared Lines
  24. Notes
  25. Main Works Cited or Consulted
  26. Index