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Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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