Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642

ISBN-13: 9781032242828 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 424 str.

Marina Tarlinskaja

Opis

Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. Marina Tarlinskaja’s statistical analysis of versification focuses on Shakespeare, but places his work in the literary context of the times. Her results offer new ways to think about the dating of plays,

Spis treści

1 Why Study Versification? Versification Analysis; Tests

2 How It All Began: From Surrey's Aeneid to Marlowe's Tamburlaine

3 Early Elizabethan Playwrights: Kyd, Marlowe, Greene, Peele, Early Shakespeare. 2, 3 Henry VI and Arden of Faversham

4 Shakespeare's Versification: Evolution. Co-Authored Plays. The Poem A Lover's Complaint

5 Jacobean and Caroline Playwrights: From Shakespeare to Shirley

6 Conclusions: Shakespeare and Versification, 1540s - 1640s

Appendix A: Verse Form and Meaning: Rhythmical Italics

Appendix B: General Tables B.1 - B.16

O autorze

Marina Tarlinskaja is Research Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, USA.