'A Lover's Complaint' : Shakespeare and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Mehl, Dieter.

Title
'A Lover's Complaint' : Shakespeare and Chaucer

Published
Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 237: 133-38, 2000.

Description
Establishes the authenticity of Shakespeare's "A Lover's Complaint" and suggests that the female falcon's complaint in SqT is a possible analogue. Both laments belong to the complaint tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.