Motives of Woe: Shakespeare and `Female Complaint'. A Critical AnthologyClarendon Press, 1991 M09 26 - 310 páginas This anthology recovers a tradition of writing to which some of the greatest medieval and Renaissance poets - women as well as men - contributed. Centring on Shakespeare's neglected A Louers Complaint, it includes `female'-voiced lyrics, chronicle poems, and fictional letters by a range of authors from Chaucer to Aphra Behn and Henry Carey. The texts are freshly edited from early manuscript and printed sources, and extensive, helpful glosses are provided. In his illuminating introduction, John Kerrigan outlines the development of 'female complaint', indicates how cultural pressures shaped it, and argues that the time is ripe for a revaluation of this literary genre. Shedding new light on Shakespeare and on the conventions of historical, pastoral, and epistolary discourse, Motives of Woe will be of interest to scholars in several branches of medieval and early modern studies. |
Contenido
Medieval Lyrics | 90 |
My woofull hert thus clad in payn | 96 |
Thomas Churchyard Shores Wife 1563 | 111 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 11 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
Abelard Annelida anthology Aphra Behn Arcyte Ariadne Aspatia beauty behold century charming Chaucer Daniel's dear death doth Drayton's echo Eclogues Eloisa Eloisa to Abelard England Englands Helicon English Ephelia Epistles euery eyes false fame female complaint female'-voiced feminine fickle maid Fortune gender genre giue grace grief hath haue heart heauen Heroides herte honour Jane Shore kind King Lady Lady Mary Wroth leaue letters liue London loue Louers Complaint lover lyric male Mary Sidney medieval Myrroure neuer never Ovid Ovid's Passion plainant plaint pleasures poem poet Psalms quene readers Renaissance reuerend rhetoric Rosamond Ruines Sapho selfe SENESINO Shakespeare shal shame shee shew Shores Wife sighes sight sinne song Sonnets sorrow soule speaker stanzas sweet teares texts thee Theseus thing thou thought verse vnto voice vpon weeping Wife's Lament woman women words writing Wulf and Eadwacer youth