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A poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. It offers a survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language.

Shakespeares Metrical Art

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/11/1991
      ISBN13: 9780520076426, 978-0520076426
      ISBN10: 0520076427
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      Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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      Book Synopsis
      A poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. It offers a survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language.

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