A Study of Shakespeare's Versification Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERRATA
- I SHAKESPEARE'S VERSIFICATION
- II THE EARLY TEXTS
- APPENDICES
- APP. I PURE TROCHAIC PENTAPODIES: List
- APP. II OTHER LINES WITHOUT UPBEAT: Examples. ALCAICS
- APP. III LINES CONTAINING MONOSYLLABIC FEET: Examples. THE CROSS ACCENT: Examples
- APP. IV LINES CONTAINING QUADRISYLLABIC FEET: List
- APP. V CERTAIN PRONUNCIATIONS: Lines exemplifying these
- APP. VI ORDER OF COMPOSITION OF THE PLAYS
- APP. VII ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, a revised Text
- THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
- INDEX
APP. II - OTHER LINES WITHOUT UPBEAT: Examples. ALCAICS
from APPENDICES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- ERRATA
- I SHAKESPEARE'S VERSIFICATION
- II THE EARLY TEXTS
- APPENDICES
- APP. I PURE TROCHAIC PENTAPODIES: List
- APP. II OTHER LINES WITHOUT UPBEAT: Examples. ALCAICS
- APP. III LINES CONTAINING MONOSYLLABIC FEET: Examples. THE CROSS ACCENT: Examples
- APP. IV LINES CONTAINING QUADRISYLLABIC FEET: List
- APP. V CERTAIN PRONUNCIATIONS: Lines exemplifying these
- APP. VI ORDER OF COMPOSITION OF THE PLAYS
- APP. VII ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, a revised Text
- THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
- INDEX
Summary
Of these there are, including all subdivisions, more than 180, the largest class being those under section I.
Checked lines beginning with a trochee followed by a resolution
(Selected examples)
Taming of the Shrew:
Full of | rose-water | and bestrew'd with flowers.
Ind. 1. 56.What! this | gentleman | will out-talk us all.
1. 2. 248.Signior | Gremio, | came you from the church?
3. 2. 151.Well, Pe|truchio, | this has put me in heart.
4. 5. 77.Sirrah | Grumio, | go to your mistress; say,
5. 2. 95.Midsummer Night's Dream:
With the | love-juice, as | I did bid thee do?
3. 2. 37.When I | come where he | calls, then he is gone.
3. 2. 416.King John:
What doth | move you to | claim your brother's land?
1. 1. 91.Let it | be so. Say, | where will you assault?
2. 1. 408.If I | talk to him, | with his innocent prate
4. 1. 25.Lead me | to the re|volts of England here.
5. 4. 7.Julius Caesar:
I will | do so. But | look you, Cassius,
1. 2. 182.He and | Lepidus | are at Caesar's house.
3. 2. 270.- Type
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- A Study of Shakespeare's VersificationWith an Inquiry into the Trustworthiness of the Early Texts an Examination of the 1616 Folio of Ben Jonson's Works and Appendices including a Revised Test of 'Antony and Cleopatra', pp. 324 - 333Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1920