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Tag Archives: Stephen Greenblatt
in verse # 23 : mighty line versus ordered speech
It was Kit Marlowe who awakened in Will Shakespeare a hunger for a dramatic speech more nearly reflecting ordinary English speech. It was Will Shakespeare who made it possible for Kris Kristofferson to write and sing the following lyrics as … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse, On-stage, Thoughts on Language
Tagged A Dead Man in Deptford, Anthony Burgess, blank verse, Christopher Marlowe, Hamlet Prince of Denmark, Kris Kristofferson, Nothing Like the Sun, poetry, Singer/Songwriter, Stephen Greenblatt, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Tamburlaine the Great, Will in the World, William Shakespeare
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in verse # 22 : back to blank verse
It is one of the guiding principles of in verse that verse should always be read aloud. This includes Shakespeare and Isaiah, Dante and Jeremiah, Milton and John of Patmos. It includes Pope and Chaucer, Beowulf and Homer, Dryden and … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse, On-stage, Personal Narratives
Tagged "The Highwayman", "The mirror for magistrates", "Tragedy of Gorboduc", Alfred Noyes, Bessie Soderborg Clark, Christopher Marlowe, Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), Marden J Clark, Stephen Greenblatt, The new Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville (Earl of Dorset), William Shakespeare
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in verse # 21 : unblank verse
The imp of the perverse — a constant companion — suggested as a title for this installment “blankety-blank verse,” but as its topic is the Elizabethan sonnet, the title above presented itself as an amiable contrast to my last installment. … Continue reading
Posted in In Verse
Tagged Anthony Burgess, Edmund Spenser, Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet, Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), Petrarchan sonnet, Renaissance England : poetry and prose from the Reformation to the Restoration, Shakespearean sonnet, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Thomas Wyatt, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, Stephen Greenblatt, The new Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, Will in the World, William Shakespeare
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