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How to make a Formal Complaint: Sara Ahmed’s Complaint! and William Shakespeare’s a Lover’s Complaint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2024

Hannah Crawforth
Affiliation:
King's College London
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Affiliation:
King's College London
Emma Smith
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

This article reads Shakespeare’s A Lover’s Complaint alongside Sara Ahmed’s Complaint!

It makes prominent the differences in identities and circumstances between Ahmed’s complainants and Shakespeare’s. It analyses Ahmed’s style and the hope for change that her writerly activism offers, alongside the Young Woman’s use of objects, tears, and other women’s voices to make her complaint heard.

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Shakespeare Survey 77
Shakespeare's Poetry
, pp. 130 - 146
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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