Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance / O.B. Hardison, Jr.
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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©1989Description: 1 online resource (362 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781421430508
- Verse drama, English
- Renaissance
- Literary form
- Epic poetry, English
- English poetry -- Early modern
- English poetry -- Classical influences
- English language -- Early modern -- Versification
- Classicism
- Genres litteraires
- Classicisme -- Angleterre
- Renaissance -- Angleterre
- Poesie anglaise -- Influence ancienne
- Poesie epique anglaise -- Histoire et critique
- Anglais (Langue) -- 1500-1700 (Moderne) -- Versification
- Literary form
- Classicism -- England
- Renaissance -- England
- English poetry -- Classical influences
- Verse drama, English -- History and criticism
- Epic poetry, English -- History and criticism
- English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Versification
- English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- England
pt. 1. Contexts: ch. 1. Prosody and purpose -- ch. 2. Ars metrica -- ch. 3. Rude and beggerly ryming: the romance tradition -- ch. 4. A question of language: Italy and the shaping of Renaissance prosodic theory -- ch. 5. Notes of instruction -- pt. 2. Performances: ch. 6. A strange metre worthy to be embraced -- ch. 7. Jasper Heywood's fourteeners -- ch. 8. Gorboduc and dramatic blank verse -- ch. 9. Heroic experiments -- ch. 10. Speech and verse in later Elizabethan drama -- ch. 11. True musical delight.
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