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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...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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.-- Publisher description. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 227 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-221) and index. |
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9780192863270 0192863274 |
| Index Number: | PR2984 |
| CLC: | I561.072 |
| Call Number: | I561.072/S779-1 |
| Contents: | Note on metrical conventions -- Introduction -- Blank verse -- Not blank verse -- Rhyme -- Alternative histories. |