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The project researches the difference between a revision vs. a rewriting. The book explores the English poems and plays of the Early New English period, from the sixteenth to the beginning of seventeenth century, with over 50 entries examined. The main material is the poem A Lover’s Complaint; the play Double Falsehood by Lewis Theobald; the revised and rewritten post-Restoration plays such as Richard II (revised by Lewis Theobald), and The Fatal Secret (rewritten Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi) by Lewis Theobald. An example of authorial revision is Sonnets 2 and 138.
Price: £90.00
Pages: 296
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date:
16 December 2025
ISBN: 9781526193278
Format: Hardcover
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Marina Tarlinskaja is Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at University of Washington.
1 A Lover’s Complaint: Its genre features, Renaissance and post-Restoration drama
2 Versification as a part of poetry: Meter and rhythm, linguistic problems
3 Tests in the analysis of verse: Illustrated by the evolution in Shakespeare’s versification
4 A Lover’s Complaint, Double Falsehood, Macbeth, The Duchess of Malfi: Revisions vs. adaptations and rewrite
5 Comparing texts mathematically – with Petr Plechác and Andrei Dobritsyn
6 The hypothesis regarding the timing and authorship of A Lover’s Complaint
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