versification

Analyzes the work of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, discussing his diction, meter, imagery, and generic form, and including readings of Heaney's elegies, pastoral eclogues, and sonnets.

Presents a classroom-tested and rehearsal-tested process for speaking Shakespeare's dialogue on the stage, which discusses meaning, rhythm and emphasis, and acting techniques, using "Romeo and Juliet" as the example text.