Author: William Sidney Walker
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Marina Tarlinskaja
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317056345
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. The main aim of the book is to analyze the evolution of Renaissance dramatic poetry. Shakespeare is the central figure of the research, but his predecessors, contemporaries and followers are also important: Shakespeare, the author argues, can be fully understood and appreciated only against the background of the whole period. Tarlinskaja surveys English plays by Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline playwrights, from Norton and Sackville’s Gorboduc to Sirley’s The Cardinal. Her analysis takes in such topics as what poets treated as a syllable in the 16th-17th century metrical verse, the particulars of stressing in iambic pentameter texts, word boundary and syntactic segmentation of verse lines, their morphological and syntactic composition, syllabic, accentual and syntactic features of line endings, and the way Elizabethan poets learned to use verse form to enhance meaning. She uses statistics to explore the attribution of questionable Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, and to examine several still-enigmatic texts and collaborations. Among these are the poem A Lover's Complaint, the anonymous tragedy Arden of Faversham, the challenging Sir Thomas More, the later Jacobean comedy The Spanish Gypsy, as well as a number of Shakespeare’s co-authored plays. Her analysis of versification offers new ways to think about the dating of plays, attribution of anonymous texts, and how collaborators divided their task in co-authored dramas.

Author: George Henry Browne
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Matthew Albert Bayfield
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1080

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Author: Matthew Albert Bayfield
Publisher: Cambridge : The University Press
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: Robert Stagg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192677993
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both of Shakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). It ranges from the continental precursors of English blank verse in the early sixteenth century through the drama and poetry of Shakespeare's contemporaries to the editing of blank verse in the eighteenth century and beyond. Alternative in its argumentation as well as its arguments, Shakespeare's Blank Verse tries out fresh ways of thinking about meter—by shunning doctrinaire methods of apprehending a writer's versification, and by reconnecting meter to the fundamental literary, dramatic, historical, and social questions that animate Shakespeare's drama.

Author: Charles Bathurst
Publisher:
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Category : Versification
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Lynne Magnusson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110866153X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :

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The power of Shakespeare's complex language - his linguistic playfulness, poetic diction and dramatic dialogue - inspires and challenges students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers across the globe. It has iconic status and enormous resonance, even as language change and the distance of time render it more opaque and difficult. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language provides important contexts for understanding Shakespeare's experiments with language and offers accessible approaches to engaging with it directly and pleasurably. Incorporating both practical analysis and exemplary readings of Shakespearean passages, it covers elements of style, metre, speech action and dialogue; examines the shaping contexts of rhetorical education and social language; test-drives newly available digital methodologies and technologies; and considers Shakespeare's language in relation to performance, translation and popular culture. The Companion explains the present state of understanding while identifying opportunities for fresh discovery, leaving students equipped to ask productive questions and try out innovative methods.

Author: William Sidney Walker
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374122784
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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A selection of verses by William Shakespeare, which the author believes readers can derive meaning from without having background information from the work in which they originally appeared.