Renaissance psychologies : Spenser and Shakespeare / Robert Lanier Reid. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, Robert Lanier, 1943- author.

Series:

Manchester Spenser.

The Manchester Spenser

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Spenser, Edmund.

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Themes, motives.

Shakespeare, William.

Fairies in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Spenser and Shakespeare both wrote with epic scope, a comprehensive view of human nature, but their characters and plots sprung from radically distinct psychologies. Renaissance psychologies explores this polarity, questioning the very distinct concepts of these two great poets and how they are related.

Contents:

Cover

Renaissance psychologies

Contents

List of figures and tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Anatomy of human nature

1 The charismatic queen and the centrality of self-love

2 Depicting passion

3 Depicting intellect: 'Experience, though noon auctoritee'

4 Depicting soul and spirit: Spenser and Shakespeare

Part II: Holistic design

5 Hierarchic architecture in The Faerie Queene

6 Shakespeare's plays as passional cycles: revealing the unconscious in chiastic symmetry

7 End-songs: final vistas of Spenser and Shakespeare

Epilogue

General index

Index of themes and symbols.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 6, 2017).

ISBN:

1-5261-2113-1