Shakespeare the Reviser : A Lover's Complaint

Tarlinskaya, Marina

Manchester University Press（2025/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526193278
• DDC分類 820.9003

Full Description

Shakespeare as a reviser of others' work is an area of growing scholarly interest. Marina Tarlinskaya draws a formal distinction between editing, revision, and rewriting. The poem A Lover's Complaint serves as an example of revision. Based on linguistic-statistical analysis, Tarlinskaya suggests that Shakespeare needed a poem to round off his 1609 sonnet sequence and, having neither the time nor the inclination to compose one from scratch, he revised an earlier work from the 1590s by a now-forgotten author, adding vocabulary characteristic of his later plays.

Contents

1 A Lover's Complaint: Its genre features, Renaissance and post-Restoration drama
2 Versification as a part of poetry: Meter and rhythm, linguistic problems
3 Tests in the analysis of verse: Illustrated by the evolution in Shakespeare's versification
4 A Lover's Complaint, Double Falsehood, Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi: Revisions vs. adaptations and rewrite
5 Comparing texts mathematically - with Petr Plechác and Andrei Dobritsyn
6 The hypothesis regarding the timing and authorship of A Lover's Complaint
Index