NOTE ON TEXTS All quotations from the poems and plays of Shakespeare come from Cambridge University Press editions,unless otherwise noted. In particular,for Venus and Adonis,The Rape of Lucrece,The Phoenix and Turtle',and A Lover's Complaint,quotations come from The Poems, ed.John Roe(Cambridge University Press,1992);and for the Sonnets,from The Sonnets,ed.G.Blakemore Evans(Cambridge University Press,1996). xivNOTE ON TEXTS All quotations from the poems and plays of Shakespeare come from Cambridge University Press editions, unless otherwise noted. In particular, for Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’, and A Lover’s Complaint, quotations come from The Poems, ed. John Roe (Cambridge University Press, 1992); and for the Sonnets, from The Sonnets, ed. G. Blakemore Evans (Cambridge University Press, 1996). xiv