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Shakespeare the Reviser
A Lover's Complaint
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Marina Tarlinskaya
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Marina Tarlinskaja is Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at University of Washington.
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eBook ISBN:
9781526193285
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eBook ISBN:
9781526193285
Keywords for this book
Shakespeare; sonnets; linguistics; rhythm; metre; verse; Elizabethan tragedies; poetry; rewriting; revision
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
