Shakespeare's Metrical Art

Shakespeare's Metrical Art
Title Shakespeare's Metrical Art PDF eBook
Author George T. Wright
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 367
Release 1988
Genre Drama
ISBN 0520076427

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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.

Shakespeare's Metrical Art

Shakespeare's Metrical Art
Title Shakespeare's Metrical Art PDF eBook
Author George T. Wright
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 366
Release 1988-08-02
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0520911938

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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.

The art of The Faerie Queene

The art of The Faerie Queene
Title The art of The Faerie Queene PDF eBook
Author Richard Danson Brown
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 214
Release 2021-01-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1526134632

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The Art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser. It offers a sharp new perspective on Spenser by rereading The Faerie Queene as poetry which is at once absorbing, demanding and experimental. Instead of the traditional conservative model of Spenser as poet, this book presents the poem as radical, edgy and unconventional, thus proposing new ways of understanding the Elizabethan poetic Renaissance. The book moves from the individual words of the poem to metre, rhyme and stanza form onto its larger structures of canto and book. It will be of particular relevance to undergraduates studying Elizabethan poetry, graduate students and scholars of Renaissance poetry, for whom the formal aspect of the poetry has been a topic of growing relevance in recent years.

Shakespeare and Language

Shakespeare and Language
Title Shakespeare and Language PDF eBook
Author Catherine M. S. Alexander
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 310
Release 2004-09-30
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780521539005

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Shakespeare's World of Words

Shakespeare's World of Words
Title Shakespeare's World of Words PDF eBook
Author Paul Yachnin
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 302
Release 2015-10-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1474252915

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Was Shakespeare really the original genius he has appeared to be since the eighteenth century, a poet whose words came from nature itself? The contributors to this volume propose that Shakespeare was not the poet of nature, but rather that he is a genius of rewriting and re-creation, someone able to generate a new language and new ways of seeing the world by orchestrating existing social and literary vocabularies. Each chapter in the volume begins with a key word or phrase from Shakespeare and builds toward a broader consideration of the social, poetic, and theatrical dimensions of his language. The chapters capture well the richness of Shakespeare's world of words by including discussions of biblical language, Latinity, philosophy of language and subjectivity, languages of commerce, criminality, history, and education, the gestural vocabulary of performance, as well as accounts of verbal modality and Shakespeare's metrics. An Afterword outlines a number of other important languages in Shakespeare, including those of law, news, and natural philosophy.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare
Title The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 846
Release 2012
Genre Drama
ISBN 0199566100

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Contains forty original essays.

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language
Title Shakespeare and the Arts of Language PDF eBook
Author Russ McDonald
Publisher
Pages 222
Release 2001
Genre English language
ISBN 0198711719

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'Russ McDonald... offers an initiation into Shakespeares English.... Like a good musician leading us beyond merely humming the tunes, he helps us hear Shakespearean unclarity, revealing just how expression in late Shakespeare sometimes transcends ordinary verbal meaning.... particularly recommendable.' -Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement 'Oxford University Press offer a mix of engagingly written introductions to a variety of Topics intended largely for undergraduates. Each author has clearly been reading and listening to the most recent scholarship, but they wear their learning lightly.' -Ruth Morse, Times Literary SupplementOxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. For the modern reader or playgoer, English as Shakespeare used it - especially in verse drama - can seem alien. Shakespeare and the Arts of Language offers practical help with linguistic and poetic obstacles. Written in a lucid, nontechnical style, the book defines Shakespeare's artistic tools, including imagery, rhetoric, and wordplay, and illustrates their effects. Throughout, the reader is encouraged to find delight in the physical properties of the words: their colour, weight, and texture, the appeal of verbal patterns, and the irresistible affective power of intensified language.