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- Title
Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint and Early Modern Criminal Confession.
- Authors
Craik, Katharine A.
- Abstract
Discusses the variety and conditions of early modern complaint regarding William Shakespeare's poem 'A Lover's Complaint.' Complaint's continuing association with court culture; Argument that the mode of confession which is recognized from amatory laments is evident in popular complaints; Shakespeare's imagination of the experimental genre of male-authored, female-voiced lament as inseparable from the unruliness of female confession.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; LOVER'S Complaint, A (Poem); SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; ENGLISH complaint poetry; EARLY modern English poetry
- Publication
Shakespeare Quarterly, 2002, Vol 53, Issue 4, p437
- ISSN
0037-3222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/shq.2003.0023