A Lover's Complaint
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A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare, often printed alongside his sonnets and written in the voice of a jilted young woman lamenting her betrayal in love.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Lover's Complaint canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4760026 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Lover's Complaint Context triple: [Works of William Shakespeare, includesWork, A Lover's Complaint]
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A.
The Legend of Good Women
The Legend of Good Women is a late 14th-century poem by Geoffrey Chaucer that presents a series of narratives about virtuous women from classical and medieval literature, framed by an allegorical prologue.
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B.
Astrophil and Stella
Astrophil and Stella is a seminal sonnet sequence by Sir Philip Sidney that explores unrequited love and is considered one of the earliest and most influential works of English Renaissance lyric poetry.
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C.
The Wife’s Lament
"The Wife’s Lament" is an Old English elegiac poem, voiced by a sorrowful woman lamenting separation and exile, and is one of the most studied lyric texts in Anglo-Saxon literature.
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D.
Venus and Adonis
"Venus and Adonis" is a mythological painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Ferdinand Bol depicting the love story between the goddess Venus and the mortal Adonis.
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E.
Of the Love of Fame
"Of the Love of Fame" is a section of David Hume’s moral philosophy in which he analyzes the human desire for reputation and esteem as a key motive in ethical behavior.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Lover's Complaint Target entity description: A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare, often printed alongside his sonnets and written in the voice of a jilted young woman lamenting her betrayal in love.
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A.
The Legend of Good Women
The Legend of Good Women is a late 14th-century poem by Geoffrey Chaucer that presents a series of narratives about virtuous women from classical and medieval literature, framed by an allegorical prologue.
-
B.
Astrophil and Stella
Astrophil and Stella is a seminal sonnet sequence by Sir Philip Sidney that explores unrequited love and is considered one of the earliest and most influential works of English Renaissance lyric poetry.
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C.
The Wife’s Lament
"The Wife’s Lament" is an Old English elegiac poem, voiced by a sorrowful woman lamenting separation and exile, and is one of the most studied lyric texts in Anglo-Saxon literature.
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D.
Venus and Adonis
"Venus and Adonis" is a mythological painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Ferdinand Bol depicting the love story between the goddess Venus and the mortal Adonis.
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E.
Of the Love of Fame
"Of the Love of Fame" is a section of David Hume’s moral philosophy in which he analyzes the human desire for reputation and esteem as a key motive in ethical behavior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
narrative poem
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poem ⓘ |
| approximateLineCount | 329 ⓘ |
| attributionDebatedBy | literary scholars ⓘ |
| author | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| firstPublication | 1609 ⓘ |
| form | rhyme royal ⓘ |
| frameNarrator | an old man listening to the young woman ⓘ |
| genre |
complaint poem
ⓘ
narrative poetry ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
elderly listener
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jilted maiden ⓘ seducing young man ⓘ |
| includedIn | many modern editions of Shakespeare's poems ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Chaucerian complaint poems
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Samuel Daniel's Complaint to Rosamond ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
dramatic monologue
ⓘ
retrospective narration ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod |
Elizabethan era
ⓘ
linked to:
English Renaissance
Jacobean era ⓘ
linked to:
Stuart period
|
| literaryTradition | complaint tradition ⓘ |
| metre | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| narrativeVoice | jilted young woman ⓘ |
| numberOfStanzas | 47 ⓘ |
| period | English Renaissance ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| printedAlongside |
Shakespeare's Sonnets
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linked to:
Shake-speares Sonnets (1609)
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| publishedIn | Shake-speares Sonnets (1609) ⓘ |
| publisher | Thomas Thorpe ⓘ |
| questionedAttribution | yes ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | ababbcc ⓘ |
| setting | rural landscape ⓘ |
| stanzaForm | seven-line stanzas ⓘ |
| structure | frame narrative ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | a young woman recounting her seduction and desertion ⓘ |
| theme |
betrayal in love
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emotional suffering ⓘ female lament ⓘ inconstancy in love ⓘ seduction and abandonment ⓘ |
| tone |
melancholic
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plaintive ⓘ |
| traditionalAttribution | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| verseForm | rhymed iambic pentameter ⓘ |
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Subject: A Lover's Complaint Description of subject: A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem traditionally attributed to William Shakespeare, often printed alongside his sonnets and written in the voice of a jilted young woman lamenting her betrayal in love.
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subject linked to:
works of William Shakespeare