Shakespeare''s Blank Verse - An Alternative History

Offers an alternative account of Shakespeare's blank verse (his unrhymed iambic pentameter) and provides a new history of the first blank verse in English and of Shakespeare's involvement in its development.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Blank Verse


• 2: Not Blank Verse


• 3: Rhyme


• 4: Alternative histories


• Bibliography

About the author

Robert Stagg is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and an Associate Senior Member of St Anne's College, Oxford. He also serves as a Fourth Series Fellow on the Advisory and Editorial Board of the Arden Shakespeare. His work has appeared in The Review of English Studies, Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare, Studies in Philology, and Essays in Criticism, as well as several edited collections.

Summary

Offers an alternative account of Shakespeare's blank verse (his unrhymed iambic pentameter) and provides a new history of the first blank verse in English and of Shakespeare's involvement in its development.

Additional text

The virtues of 'Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History' are many [...] thoughtful and provocative analysis peppers the book.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Stagg, Robert (Leverhulme Research Fellow Stagg
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2022
• EAN: 9780192863270
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286327-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean