Shakespeare's third keyboard
Subtitle: the significance of rime in Shakespeare's plays
By: Lorna Flint.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Versification.; English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Rhyme.; Verse drama, English -- History and criticism.
Description: "This book springs from an unaccountable gap among the rows of "Shakespeare Studies" on bookshop and library shelves. Playgoers and readers with insatiable appetites for every kind of commentary on Shakespeare's work who discover some volumes devoted to his style may find a musical metaphor illuminating: that Shakespeare had three keyboards at his disposal.

The first, blank verse, and the second, prose, have attracted some critical attention; but the third, his rime (as his contemporary printers spelled it), has been neglected. This study aims to fill that gap."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-202) and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.).