Shakespeare's blank verse : an alternative history / Robert Stagg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stagg, Robert, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Shakespeare, William.

Blank verse, English--History and criticism.

Blank verse, English.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 227 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Blank Verse

2. Not Blank Verse

3. Rhyme

4. Alternative Histories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0192863274

9780192863270

OCLC:

1329422263