Brian Vickers

Shakespeare, 'a Lover's Complaint', and John Davies of Hereford

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text was the first full study of the origins and authorship of A Lover's Complaint.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9780521349611
• ISBN-10: 0521349613
• Artikelnr.: 33611604

Autorenporträt

Brian Vickers (MA, Wheaton College; MDiv, PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate professor of New Testament interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Thomas Thorpe and the 1609 Sonnets
Part I. Background: 2. John Davies of Hereford: a life of writing
3. A Lover's Complaint and Spenserian pastoral
4. 'Poore women's faults': narration and judgement in the Female Complaint
Part II. Foreground: 5. A poem anatomized: the rival claims: 1. Diction, 2. Rhetoric, 3. Metaphor
4. Compositio
5. Verse form
6. A Lover's Complaint in Davies's canon: 1. Diction, 2. Rhetoric, 3. Metaphor, 4. Verse form
Appendix 1: the text of A Lover's Complaint
Appendix 2: John Davies, Uncollected Poems
Bibliography.