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IV.—A Type of Blank Verse Line Found in the Earlier Elizabethan Drama

1917; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 32; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1632/456911

1938-1530

Frank G. Hubbard,

Renaissance Literature and Culture

Some time ago in an article on Locrine and Selimus I showed the futility of discussing questions of the authorship and chronology of plays written between 1585 and 1595 on the evidence of parallel passages. I endeavored to show that the occurrence of such parallels is much more likely to be evidence of different authorship than of common authorship. If, now, this kind of evidence, by itself, is to be considered of small value, where shall we look for other evidence that may have more weight and certainty? I believe that something of significance can be found if we search carefully for characteristics of style,—forms of expression more or less rhetorical, peculiar arrangement of terms, favorite collocations of words, devices to “bum-bast out” the blank verse.