Prosody and purpose in the English renaissance / O.B. Hardison, Jr.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hardison, O. B., Jr. (Osborne Bennett), 1928-1990
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1989.
Subjects:	1500-1700 English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Versification. Epic poetry, English > History and criticism. Verse drama, English > History and criticism. English poetry > Classical influences. Renaissance > England. Classicism > England. Literary form. Classicism. English language > Early modern > Versification. English poetry > Early modern. Epic poetry, English. Renaissance. Verse drama, English. England. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

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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