Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History

Robert Stagg (Leverhulme Research Fellow, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Associate Senior Member, St Anne's College, University of Oxford)

Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
6 October 2022
Pages
240
ISBN
9780192863270

Shakespeare’s Blank Verse: An Alternative History

Robert Stagg (Leverhulme Research Fellow, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Associate Senior Member, St Anne's College, University of Oxford)

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.

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