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Courteous exchanges : Spenser's and Shakespeare's gentle dialogues with readers and audiences / Patricia Wareh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wareh, Patricia, author.
- Series:
- Manchester Spenser.
- The Manchester Spenser
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Criticism and interpretation.
- Spenser, Edmund.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- Courtesy in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : 0 illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Shakespeare’s plays, showing how both facilitate the critique of Renaissance aristocratic identity. Moving from a consideration of Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier as a text that encouraged reader engagement, the book offers new readings of Shakespeare’s plays in conjunction with Spenser. It pairs Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale with The Faerie Queene in order to explore how topics such as education, gender, religion, race, and aristocratic identity are offered up to reader and audience interpretation.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Courteous exchanges
- 1 Imprinting and performance in Castigliones Book of the Courtier
- 2 Playing by the rules? Pedagogies of pleasure and inset audiences in Spensers Faerie Queene and Shakespeares Loves Labours Lost
- 3 Honorable action upstaged by theatrical wordplay in The Faerie Queene and Much Ado About Nothing
- 4 Courteous competitions
- 5 Literary mirrors of aristocratic performance
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2024)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9781526149862
- 1526149869
- OCLC:
- 1457220394
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