Product Description: The versatility of Shakespeare's performances on the keyboards of blank verse and prose has attracted critical attention. But the contribution of the third keyboard -- his rhymed verse -- has fallen on deaf ears. This analysis of rhyme in individual passages chosen from a variety of plays argues that Shakespeare's correlation of perfect and imperfect rhyme makes a subtly significant contribution to the total dramatic effect of every performance of every play...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)