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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.
Price: $140.00
Pages: 296
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date:
16 December 2025
ISBN: 9781526193278
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
Language and Linguistics, Poetry by form: Sonnet
Marina Tarlinskaja is Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at University of Washington.
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
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