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Despite the outpour of interpretations, from critics of all schools, on Shakespeare's dramatic works and other poetic works, A Lover's Complaint has been almost totally ignored by criticism. This collection of essays is designed to bring to the poem the attention it deserves for its beauty, its aesthetic, psychological and conceptual complexity, and its representation of its cultural moment. A series of readings of A Lover's Complaint, particularly engaging with issues of psychoanalysis and gender, the volume cumulatively builds a detailed picture of the poem, its reception, and its critical neglect. The essays in the volume, by leading Shakespeareans, open up this important text before scholars, and together generate the long-overdue critical conversation about the many intriguing facets of the poem.

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'... 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

'... 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

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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. Shirley Sharon-Zisser, Stephen Whitworth, Patrick Cheney, Paul Stegner, Ilona Bell, John Roe, Heather Dubrow, James Schiffer, Jon Harned.

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