A Lover's Complaint

So for example, Shakespeare has his 154 sonnets that are published in the year 1609, and that's a very iconic publication.

But what some people might not know is at the end of those 154 sonnets, he has a long poem called "A Lover's Complaint," and the woman speaks back to some of the, uh, uh, she has some concerns about, uh, uh, being a spurned, abandoned lover.

And so a lot of these, uh, complaint poems are long narrative poems in which, uh, either abandoned women, uh, speak back to what has happened to them and lodge their complaints.

Sometimes they are historical figures, uh, from English history, so there's a whole book called "The Mirror for Magistrates" that's full of complaints.