Shakespeare's metrical art

This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language. Iambic pentameter has often been called the most speechlike of English meters, and this is undoubtedly true, especially of its blank verse form. George T. Wright. Includes Bibliographies And Index.