Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - BOOK PB - Oxford University Press SE - x + 227 pp. CY - Oxford ID - aaao6 T1 - Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History AU - Stagg, Robert PY - 2023 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Contextualizes Shakespeare's use of unrhymed iambic pentameter in the broader history of early modern blank verse, starting with early sixteenth century and comparing Shakespeare's use of blank verse with that of his dramatic and poetic contemporaries. Connects blank verse to theatrical, literary and social aspects of Shakespearean drama. ER -