1st Edition
Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint Suffering Ecstasy
Edited By Shirley Sharon-Zisser
Copyright 2006
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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Despite the outpour of interpretations, from critics of all schools, on Shakespeare's dramatic works and other poetic works, A Lover's Complaint has been almost totally ignored by criticism. This collection of essays is designed to bring to the poem the attention it deserves for its beauty, its aesthetic, psychological and conceptual complexity, and its representation of its cultural moment. A... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Generating dialogue on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint, Shirley Sharon-Zisser and Stephen Whitworth; '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 England, 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; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Shirley Sharon-Zisser is Senior Lecturer and Graduate Advisor at the Department of English, and Co-Director of the Forum for Psyshoanalysis, Philosophy and Culture at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
'... this volume is useful as a reference tool and commendable for encouraging further critical investigations of the intriguing text of A Lover's Complaint.' Renaissance Quarterly
