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Shakespeare and Spenser : attractive opposites / edited by J.B. Lethbridge.
- Format:
- Book
- 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 (ix, 306 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text brings together ten chapters 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 a large bibliography of previous work is offered, which will be of the greatest help to those who follow up the opportunities offered by this collection. The book presents new approaches, heralding a resurgence of interest in the relations between two of the greatest Renaissance English poets to a wider scholarly group and in a more systematic manner than before. This will be of interest to students and academics interested in Renaissance literature.
- 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 and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 1-78170-105-9
- 1-84779-176-X
- OCLC:
- 818847405
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