Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of the Five Collaborative Plays by Brian Vickers

Author:Brian Vickers [VICKERS, BRIAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Education & Reference, Literature & Fiction, British, History & Criticism, Criticism & Theory, Movements & Periods, Humanities, Literature, English Literature
ISBN: 9780199256532
Google: 1XazQgAACAAJ
Amazon: 0199256535
Goodreads: 283726
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002-04-15T06:28:16+00:00

That perceptive observation, both of the frequency of ellipses in the play, and their uneven distribution, was repeated by other scholars many years later, unaware of their predecessor. Steevens also pointed out inconsistencies in the way names are pronounced, as adapted to the metre: no ‘individual writer’ would have called the same characters and places alternately Perĭcles and Perīcles, Thaĭsa and Thaīsa, Pentapŏlis and PentapŌlis. Shakespeare never varies the quantity of his proper names in the compass of one play. In Cymbeline we always meet with Posthūmus, not Posthŭmus; Arvirāgus, and not Arvirăgus. (pp. 300–1)

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