Shakespeare and Spenser : attractive opposites / edited by J. B. Lethbridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lethbridge, J. B., 1958-

Series:

Manchester Spenser.

The Manchester Spenser

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Literary style.

Shakespeare, William.

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Literary style.

Spenser, Edmund.

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Influence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

*Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive Opposites* is a much-needed volume that brings together ten original papers by the experts, on the relations between Spenser and Shakespeare. There has been much noteworthy work on the linguistic borrowings of Shakespeare from Spenser, but the subject has never before been treated systematically, and the linguistic borrowings lead to broader-scale borrowings and influences which are treated here. An additional feature of the book is that for the first time a large bibliography of previous work is offered which will be of the greatest help to those who follo

Contents:

Introduction : Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare : methodological investigations / J.B. Lethbridge

Beyond binarism : Eros/death and Venus/Mars in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Spenser's Faerie Queene / Judith H. Anderson

Spenser and Shakespeare : polarized approaches to psychology, poetics, and patronage / Robert Lanier Reid

Perdita, Pastorella, and the romance of literary form : Shakespeare's counter-Spenserian authorship / Patrick Cheney

Pastoral forms and religious reform in Spenser and Shakespeare / Karen Nelson

Equinoctial boar : Venus and Adonis in Spenser's Garden, Shakespeare's Epyllion, and Richard III's England / Anne Lake Prescott

Hamlet's debt to Spenser's Mother Hubberds tale : a satire on Robert Cecil? / Rache E. Hile

Fusion : Spenserian metaphor and Sidnean example in Shakespeare's King Lear / Susan Oldrieve

What means a knight? Red cross knight and Edgar / Michael L. Hays

Seven deadly sins and Shakespeare's Jacobean tragedies / Ronald Horton.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-298) and index.

Contains:

Anderson, Judith H. Beyond binarism : Eros/death and Venus/Mars in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Spenser's Faerie Queene.

Cheney, Patrick, 1949- Perdita, Pastorella, and the romance of literary form : Shakespeare's counter-Spenserian authorship.

Hays, Michael L. (Michael Louis), 1940- What means a knight? Red cross knight and Edgar.

Hile, Rachel E. Hamlet's debt to Spenser's Mother Hubberds tale : a satire on Robert Cecil?

Horton, Ronald Arthur, 1936- Seven deadly sins and Shakespeare's Jacobean tragedies.

Lethbridge, J. B., 1958- Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare : methodological investigations.

Nelson, Karen. Pastoral forms and religious reform in Spenser and Shakespeare.

Oldrieve, Susan. Fusion : Spenserian metaphor and Sidnean example in Shakespeare's King Lear.

Prescott, Anne Lake, 1936- Equinoctial boar : Venus and Adonis in Spenser's Garden, Shakespeare's Epyllion, and Richard III's England.

Reid, Robert Lanier, 1943- Spenser and Shakespeare : polarized approaches to psychology, poetics, and patronage.

ISBN:

1-78170-105-9

1-84779-176-X

OCLC:

818847405