Description
Book SynopsisInnovative approach and study of Spenser's literature. Original ideas and perspectives methodolodgy when studying Spenser. Will appeal to wide market of Renaissance students. -- .
Trade Review'This book makes an outstanding contribution to the twin study of Spenser and Shakespeare, offering what is easily one of the best books ever written on the subject…. Highly recommended.'
Choice, June 2009
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Table of ContentsIntroduction. Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare: Methodological Investigations
1. Beyond Binarism: Eros/Death and Venus/Mars in Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra and Spenser’s Faerie Queene
2. Spenser and Shakespeare: Polarized Approaches to Psychology, Poetics, and Patronage
3. Perdita, Pastorella, and the Romance of Literary Form: Shakespeare’s Counter-Spenserian Authorship
4. Pastoral Forms and Religious Reform in Spenser and Shakespeare
5. The Equinoctial Boar: Venus and Adonis in Spenser’s Garden, Shakespeare’s Epyllion and Richard III’s England
6. Hamlet’s debt to Spenser’s Mother Hubberds Tale: A Satire on Robert cecil?
7. Fusion: Spenserian Metaphor and Sidnean Example in Shakespeares King Lear
8. What means a Knight? Red Cross Knight and Edgar
9. The Seven Deadly Sins and Shakespeare’s Jacobean Tragedies
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