Prosody and purpose in the English Renaissance

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Prosody and purpose in the English Renaissance

O.B. Hardison, Jr.

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1989

  • : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references

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内容説明

Originally published in 1989. In Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance the eminent scholar O. B. Hardison Jr. sets out "to recover the special kinds of music inherent in English Renaissance poetry." The book begins with a thorough and wide-ranging survey of the development of prosodic theory from the ancient ars metrica tradition to the sixteenth century, with special emphasis on such issues as the relation of verse form and genre, the relation of syntax to prosody, and the role of language reform in shaping Renaissance prosody. The second part of the book considers the impact of prosodic traditions on specific literary works and verse forms, among them Surrey's Aeneid, Heywood's translation of Seneca's Thyestes, Sackville and Norton's Gorboduc, and the dramatic and epic verse of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton. Throughout, Hardison examines not only how poets crafted their verse but why. He explores authorial purposes ranging from technical attempts to match sound and genre to the lofty aims of improving the vernacular or ennobling culture, from the dramatist's practical search for verse forms suited to the stage to Milton's quest for a meter fit to convey divine relation.

目次

Preface Part I. Contexts Chapter 1. Prosody and Purpose Chapter 2. Ars Metrica Chapter 3. Rude and Beggerly Ryming: The Romance Tradition Chapter 4. A Question of Language: Italy and the Shaping of Renaissance Prosodic Theory Chapter 5. Notes of Instruction Part II. Performances Chapter 6. A Straunge Metre Worthy To Be Embraced Chapter 7. Jasper Heywood's Fourteeners Chapter 8. Gorboduc and Dramatic Blank Verse, with a Note on Comedy Chapter 9. Heroic Experiments Chapter 10. Speech and Verse in Later Elizabethan Drama Chapter 11. True Musical Delight Notes Index

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