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Elizabethan tragedies
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linguistics
metre
poetry
revision
rewriting
rhythm
Shakespeare
sonnets
verse
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- ISBN 9781526193278
- Weight: 606g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Shakespeare as a reviser of others' work is an area of growing scholarly interest. Marina Tarlinskaya draws a formal distinction between editing, revision, and rewriting. The poem A Lover's Complaint serves as an example of revision. Based on linguistic–statistical analysis, Tarlinskaya suggests that Shakespeare needed a poem to round off his 1609 sonnet sequence and, having neither the time nor the inclination to compose one from scratch, he revised an earlier work from the 1590s by a now-forgotten author, adding vocabulary characteristic of his later plays.
Marina Tarlinskaja is Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at University of Washington.
