The Cambridge Companion to SpenserAndrew Hadfield The Cambridge Companion to Spenser provides an introduction to Spenser that is at once accessible and rigorous. Fourteen specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars bring together the best recent writing on the work of the most important non-dramatic Renaissance poet. The contributions provide all the essential information required to appreciate and understand Spenser's rewarding and challenging work. The Companion guides the reader through Spenser's poetry and prose, and provides extensive commentary on his life, the historical and religious context in which he wrote, his wide reading in Classical, European and English poetry, his sexual politics and use of language. Emphasis is placed on Spenser's relationship to his native England, and to Ireland - where he lived for most of his adult life - as well as the myriad of intellectual contexts which inform his writing. A chronology and further reading lists make this volume indispensable for any student of Spenser. |
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... ( London : Longman , 1977 ) Irish University Review Journal of English and Germanic Philology Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Ovid , Metamorphoses The Modern Language Association of America Modern Language Notes Modern ...
... ( London : Longman , 1977 ) Irish University Review Journal of English and Germanic Philology Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Ovid , Metamorphoses The Modern Language Association of America Modern Language Notes Modern ...
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... ( London : Longman , 1995 ) Studies in Philology A. C. Hamilton , ed . , The Spenser Encyclopedia ( London , Toronto and Buffalo : Routledge and Toronto University Press , 1990 ) Spenser Studies A View of the State of Ireland , from the ...
... ( London : Longman , 1995 ) Studies in Philology A. C. Hamilton , ed . , The Spenser Encyclopedia ( London , Toronto and Buffalo : Routledge and Toronto University Press , 1990 ) Spenser Studies A View of the State of Ireland , from the ...
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Andrew Hadfield. CHRONOLOGY C1552-4 Spenser born in London . 1553 1554 1555 1558 1559 1561 1567 1569 Death of Edward VI and accession of Mary . Mary marries Philip II of Spain . Execution of Lady Jane Grey . English Church reconciled to ...
Andrew Hadfield. CHRONOLOGY C1552-4 Spenser born in London . 1553 1554 1555 1558 1559 1561 1567 1569 Death of Edward VI and accession of Mary . Mary marries Philip II of Spain . Execution of Lady Jane Grey . English Church reconciled to ...
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... London after he claims that free speech should exist in Parliament . First public theatre built in London . Possibly in Ireland , as Irenius in A View of the Present State of Ireland claims that he witnesses the execution of Murrogh O ...
... London after he claims that free speech should exist in Parliament . First public theatre built in London . Possibly in Ireland , as Irenius in A View of the Present State of Ireland claims that he witnesses the execution of Murrogh O ...
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... London with dispatch for Privy Council from President of Munster . Jan. 13 Dies in Westminster and is buried in Westminster Abbey next to Chaucer at the expense of Earl of Essex . Shakespeare , As You Like It , Julius Caesar ; Thomas ...
... London with dispatch for Privy Council from President of Munster . Jan. 13 Dies in Westminster and is buried in Westminster Abbey next to Chaucer at the expense of Earl of Essex . Shakespeare , As You Like It , Julius Caesar ; Thomas ...
Contents
Spensers life and career | 13 |
Historical contexts Britain and Europe | 37 |
Ireland policy poetics and parody | 60 |
Spensers Pastorals The Shepheardes Calender and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe | 79 |
The Faerie Queene Books IIII | 106 |
The Faerie Queene Books IVVII | 124 |
Spensers shorter poems | 143 |
Spensers languages writing in the ruins of English | 162 |
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