Shakespeare's Poetic Styles: Verse Into DramaFirst published in 1980. At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits of thought and feeling which define the significance of human actions. John Baxter analyses the way in which these limits are reached, and also provides a strong argument for the idea that the power of Shakespearean drama depends upon the co-operation of poetic style and dramatic form. Three plays are examined in detail in the text: The Tragedy of Mustapha by Fulke Greville and Richard II and Macbeth by Shakespeare. |
Contents
Sidneys Defence and Grevilles Mustapha | 7 |
Tragedy and history in Richard II | 46 |
the moral and the golden | 56 |
the metaphysical and | 77 |
style and the character | 106 |
style and the character | 114 |
Tragic doings political order | 144 |
bombast and wonder | 168 |
style and form | 196 |
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Achmat action Altick Aristotle attempt blank verse Bolingbroke bombastic caesura Camena character claims closed couplet Coleridge Coleridge's critical Cunningham death despite drama dramatist Elizabethan eloquent style emotional effects England English essentially expression F. R. Leavis fact fear feeling Gaunt Gaunt's speech grand style Greville Greville's heroic couplet high style Howard Baker human Ibid imagery images imitation individual intention J. V. Cunningham John of Gaunt kind King Richard language Leavis libertine London lyric Macbeth matter means metaphor metaphysical poetry moral style murder Mustapha nation native plain style nature passage Petrarchan phrase play poem poet poetic styles poetry present question remarks reprinted rhetoric Richard II Richard the Second Rossa scene sense sermo humilis Shakespeare Sidney Sidney's soliloquy stanza subjunctive suggests Tamburlaine thee things thou thought tion Titus Andronicus traditional tragedy truth University Press Winters's wonder word Yvor Winters