³ Denton Jacques Snider, A Biography of William Shakespeare, Set forth as his Life Drama (St Louis: William Harvey Miner Co., 1922); quoted in A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Poems, ed. Hyder Edward Rollins (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1938), 600.

⁴ See John Kerrigan, Motives of Woe: Shakespeare and ‘Female Complaint’, A Critical Anthology (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).

⁵ Kerrigan, Motives of Woe, 12, who nevertheless tends to stress that complaint as a genre tended to reinforce patriarchy: the genre ‘was embedded in belying and bemonstering relations which framed texts reinforced and which Heroidean texts could not dismantle, and which directed the energies of the form into male constructions of femininity’ (82). Sasha Roberts, Reading Shakespeare’s Poems in Early Modern England (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 150.