Shakespeare the Reviser - A Lover''s Complaint

The book examines the distinction between revision and rewriting in Early New English literature, analysing over 50 poems and plays from the sixteenth to seventeenth century. Focusing on A Lover's Complaint, Double Falsehood, and adaptations of Richard II and The Duchess of Malfi, it explores how texts evolved through revision and reinterpretation.

About the author

Marina Tarlinskaja is Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at University of Washington.

Product details

• Authors: Marina Tarlinskaya
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 23.09.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781526193278
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-9327-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Linguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Shakespeare Plays, POETRY / Shakespeare, Poetry by form: Sonnet, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean, Language and Linguistics