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Description

1. x, 411 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Verse drama, English
2. Blankvers
3. Verse drama, English > History and criticism
4. Rezeption
5. Engelsk dramatik > historia
6. Englisch
7. Criticism, interpretation, etc
8. 1500-1600
9. Versdrama
10. Versification
11. English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
12. Metrik
13. English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
14. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Versification

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Why study versification? versification analysis; tests -- How it all began: from Surrey's Aeneid to Marlowe's Tamburlaine -- Early Elizabethan playwrights: Kyd, Marlowe, Greene, Peele, early Shakespeare. 2, 3 Henry VI and Arden of Faversham -- Shakespeare's versification: evolution. co-authored plays. The poem A lover's complaint -- Jacobean and Caroline playwrights: from Shakespeare to Shirley -- Conclusions: Shakespeare and versification, 1540s-1640s.

Call number

1. JFE 16-8569

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Tarlinskaja, Marina.

Title

1. Shakespeare and the versification of English drama, 1561-1642 / Marina Tarlinskaja, University of Washington, USA.

Publisher

1. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1500-1600

LCCN

1. 2014008234

ISBN

1. 9781472430281 (cloth ; alk. paper)
2. 147243028X (cloth ; alk. paper)
3. 1472430301 (electronic bk.)
4. 9781472430304 (electronic bk.)

Research call number

1. JFE 16-8569