A Lover’s Complaint

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Vows were ever brokers to defiling.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Topic

Broken promises Promises

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

A Lover’s Complaint Shakespeare's Sonnets

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem

Language

English

Time

1609 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "A Lover's Complaint." Shakespeare's Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, I. 173.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "A Lover's Complaint." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Suzanne Gossett, Jean E Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus, and Gordon McMullan, 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.