Tag Archives: Shakespeare

in verse # 20 : blank verse

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Dennis Clark

Blank verse — the unrhymed iambic pentameter so brilliantly deployed by Shakespeare in his later plays — is an invention of the English renaissance, and specifically of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-47), who used it to revise and strengthen … Continue reading →

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Mormon LitCrit: Brother, can you paradigm?

Posted on September 3, 2010 by Eric R Samuelsen

Here’ s what happens a lot: I’ll be in a discussion of the Gospel and the Arts, or Literature, or Music or Theatre or whatever, and the same binary comes up.  There are two kinds of art: ‘worldly’ art and … Continue reading →

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