Critical essays on Shakespeare's A lover's complaint : suffering ecstasy / edited by Shirley Sharon-Zisser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharon-Zisser, Shirley, 1962-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Lover's complaint.

Shakespeare, William.

Complaint poetry, English--History and criticism.

Complaint poetry, English.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Authorship.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Authorship.

Love poetry, English--History and criticism.

Love poetry, English.

Suffering in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 203 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2006]

Contents:

'Deep brained sonnets' and 'tragic shows' : Shakespeare's late Ovidian art in A lover's complaint / Patrick Cheney

A reconciled maid : A lover's complaint and confessional practices in early modern English / Paul Stegner

Shakespeare's exculpatory complaint / Ilona Bell

Unfinished business : A lover's complaint and Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and The rape of Lucrece / John Roe

'He had the dialect and different skill' : authorizers in Henry V, A lover's complaint and Othello / Heather Dubrow

'Honey words' : A lover's complaint and the fine art of seduction / James Schiffer

Rhetoric and perverse desire in A lover's complaint / Jon Harned

'Where excess begs all' : Shakespeare, Freud, and the diacritics of melancholy / Stephen Whitworth

'True to bondage' : the rhetorical forms of female masochism in A lover's complaint / Shirley Sharon-Zisser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.

ISBN:

0754603458

OCLC:

61169758