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    A Lover's Complaint
    A Lover's Complaint
    A Lover's Complaint
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    A Lover's Complaint

    By William Shakespeare

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    A young woman weeps at the edge of a river, into which she throws torn-up letters, rings, and other tokens of love. An old man asks the reason for her sorrow, and she responds.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateAug 16, 2014
    ISBN9781633842816
    A Lover's Complaint
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

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      A Lover's Complaint - William Shakespeare

      A LOVER’S COMPLAINT

      by William Shakespeare

      ©2014 Wilder Publications

      All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except for brief quotations for review purposes only.

      Wilder Publications, Inc.

      PO Box 623

      Floyd, VA 24091

      ISBN: 978-1-63384-281-6

      First Wilder Edition

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

        From off a hill whose concave womb reworded

        A plaintful story from a sist’ring vale,

        My spirits t’attend this double voice accorded,

        And down I laid to list the sad—tuned tale,

        Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,

        Tearing of papers, breaking rings atwain,

        Storming her world with sorrow’s

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