Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both of Shakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). It ranges from the continental precursors of English blank verse in the early sixteenth century through the drama and poetry of Shakespeare's contemporaries to the editing of blank verse in the eighteenth century and beyond. Alternative in its argumentation as well as its arguments, Shakespeare's Blank Verse tries out fresh ways of thinking about meter--by shunning doctrinaire methods of apprehending a writer's versification, and by reconnecting meter to the fundamental literary, dramatic, historical, and social questions that animate Shakespeare's drama.

About the Author
Robert Stagg is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, and an Associate Senior Member of St Anne's College, Oxford. He also serves as a Fourth Series Fellow on the Advisory and Editorial Board of the Arden Shakespeare. His work has appeared in The Review of English Studies, Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare, Studies in Philology, and Essays in Criticism, as well as several edited collections.

Awards
Winner of Shortlisted, 2023 University English Book Prize.



Book Information
ISBN 9780192863270
Author Robert Stagg
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 144mm * 20mm