Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance - Hardison, O. B., Jr. (Osborne Bennett), 1928-1990.; Project Muse. (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989)
pt. 1. Contexts: ch. 1. Prosody and purpose -- ch. 2. Ars metrica -- ch. 3. Rude and beggerly ryming: the romance tradition -- ch. 4. A question of language: Italy and the shaping of Renaissance prosodic theory -- ch. 5. Notes of instruction -- pt. 2. Performances: ch. 6. A strange metre worthy to be embraced -- ch. 7. Jasper Heywood's fourteeners -- ch. 8. Gorboduc and dramatic blank verse -- ch. 9. Heroic experiments -- ch. 10. Speech and verse in later Elizabethan drama -- ch. 11. True musical delight.
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