Shakespeare and around him. The versification of the English drama

The book is devoted to the study of the English metric verse, mainly the dramatic white five -foot iambic of the English Renaissance (XVI? XVII centuries), as well as the attribution of plays and their parts - one of the most urgent problems in the study of the dramas of the early Renaissance. The reader is offered the results of a unique study of the author - a well -known Shakespeare and researcher of the English verse - in the field of linguistic and statistical analysis of English versions and individual author"s styles. The author examines the correlation of a metric scheme with speech stresses, the placement of strong syntactic gaps in the verse of different periods, the relationship between the form of the verse and the meaning in the poems and drams of Shakespeare and other poets of the era of the English Renaissance, his predecessors, contemporaries and followers: Sarri, Spencer, Marlo, Kida , Fletcher, webster, Midleton, Massinger, Ford and Shirley.
For literary scholars, Shakespeare"s, specialists in verse linguistics, researchers of English literature and a wide range of readers