Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint: Suffering Ecstasy

Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint: Suffering Ecstasy
ISBN-10
1351947354
ISBN-13
9781351947350
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
214
Language
English
Published
2017-05-15
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Shirley Sharon-Zisser

Description

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 series of readings of A Lover's Complaint, particularly engaging with issues of psychoanalysis and gender, the volume cumulatively builds a detailed picture of the poem, its reception, and its critical neglect. The essays in the volume, by leading Shakespeareans, open up this important text before scholars, and together generate the long-overdue critical conversation about the many intriguing facets of the poem.

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