Shakespeare's Metrical Art

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Shakespeare's Metrical Art
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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.

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