Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap
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Appreciating Shakespeare with Doctor Rap
Shakespeare's Other Poems (Series I, Chapter 12)
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Series I, Chapter 12: Shakespeare's Other Poems
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Phoenix and the Turtle
A Lover's Complaint
Notes:
I have taken some facts and quotations from the following:
On The Rape of Lucrece: Hallett Smith, Introduction to The Rape of Lucrece in G. Glakemore Evans, ed., The Riverside Shakespeare, Second Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997), p. 1814, 1815; and F.E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion (Baltimore: Penguin, 1964), p. 402. On A Lover’s Complaint: Robert Giroux, The Book Known as Q: A Consideration of Shakepeare’s Sonnets (New York: Atheneum, 1982), p. 210, 211; Brian Vickers, “Did Shakespeare write A Lover’s Complaint?” accessed 8/13/18 at https://journals.openedition.org/shakespeare/1026#ftn1; see the technical argument in MacDonald P. Jackson, “A Lover’s Complaint and the Claremont Shakespeare Clinic” in Early Modern Literary Studies accessed 8/19/18 at https://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/journal/index.php/emls/article/viewFile/67/22; see the broader argument in MacDonald P. Jackson, Determining the Shakespeare Canon: Arden of Faversham and A Lover’s Complaint (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
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