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

ISBN-13: 9781138249264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 214 str.

Shirley Sharon-Zisser

Opis

A series of readings of Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint, particularly engaging with issues of psychoanalysis and gender, this volume cumulatively builds a detailed picture of the poem, its reception, and its critical neglect. The collection by leading Shakespeareans brings to the poem the attention it deserves for its beauty, its aesthetic, psychological and conceptual complexity, and its representation of its cultural moment.

Recenzje

'... this volume is useful as a reference tool and commendable for encouraging further critical investigations of the intriguing text of A Lover's Complaint.' Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: Generating dialogue on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint, Shirley Sharon-Zisser and Stephen Whitworth; 'Deep brained sonnets' and 'tragic shows': Shakespeare's late Ovidian art in A Lover's Complaint, Patrick Cheney; A reconciled maid: A Lover's Complaint and confessional practices in early modern England, Paul Stegner; Shakespeare's exculpatory complaint, Ilona Bell; Unfinished business: A Lover's Complaint and Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and The Rape of Lucrece, John Roe; 'He had the dialect and different skill': authorizers in Henry V, A Lover's Complaint and Othello, Heather Dubrow; 'Honey words': A Lover's Complaint and the fine art of seduction, James Schiffer; Rhetoric and perverse desire in A Lover's Complaint, Jon Harned; 'Where excess begs all': Shakespeare, Freud, and the diacritics of melancholy, Stephen Whitworth; 'True to bondage': the rhetorical forms of female masochism in A Lover's Complaint, Shirley Sharon-Zisser; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Shirley Sharon-Zisser is Senior Lecturer and Graduate Advisor at the Department of English, and Co-Director of the Forum for Psyshoanalysis, Philosophy and Culture at Tel Aviv University, Israel.