Shakespeare's Blank Verse

An Alternative History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-06
Mått:144 x 223 x 20 mm
Vikt:420 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780192863270
Utmärkelser:Shortlisted, Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize Shortlisted, 2023 University English Book Prize

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Robert Stagg is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and an Associate Senior Member of St Anne's College, Oxford. He also serves as a Fourth Series Fellow on the Advisory and Editorial Board of the Arden Shakespeare. His work has appeared in The Review of English Studies, Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare, Studies in Philology, and Essays in Criticism, as well as several edited collections.

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A beautifully articulate, extensively researched and utterly compelling alternative history of blank verse, this book speaks to readers not just of Shakespeare but of English Renaissance writing more generally. This new book revitalizes an old subject with erudition and panache, going far beyond Shakespeare in its ambitions and reach.