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A Study of Shakespeare's Versification

A Study of Shakespeare's Versification

Bayfield, Matthew Albert
Matthew Albert, Bayfield

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance D

Literary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 1108002536
ISBN13: 9781108002530
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 20 2009
Pages: 540
Weight: 1.49
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Reverend Matthew Albert Bayfield (1852-1922) published this study at the end of his life after a long career as classical scholar, editor of Greek tragedies and headmaster of several public schools. He gives an account of the structure and characteristic features of Shakespeare's dramatic verse and argues that it has been fundamentally misunderstood by other scholars. In particular, he analyses the use of contractions or abbreviations found in the Folio and Quartos and continued in the editions of his own time. He weighs up which of the contractions familiar from many editions were actually Shakespeare's, and what that reveals about how Shakespeare might have intended his prose and verse to be spoken. Bayfield's many appendices evaluating the metre of specific lines and his detailed linguistic analysis remain thought-provoking for modern editors and scholars of Shakespeare.

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