Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642

Name: Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642Author(s): Marina Tarlinskaja\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472430281, 978-1472430281\nSynopsis\nSurveying 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 Sackvilles Gorboduc to Sirleys 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 ia.