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

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In these 10 original papers by experts on the relations between Spenser and Shakespeare, the subject of the linguistic borrowings of Shakespeare from Spenser is treated systematically leading into broader-scale borrowings and influences being considered. A large bibliography of previous work is also...

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Other Authors: Lethbridge, J. B., 1958-, Anderson, Judith H., Cheney, Patrick, 1949-, Hays, Michael L. (Michael Louis), 1940-, Hile, Rachel E., Horton, Ronald Arthur, 1936-, Nelson, Karen, Oldrieve, Susan, Prescott, Anne Lake, 1936-, Reid, Robert Lanier, 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:Manchester Spenser.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Literary style.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Literary style.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Influence.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literary style.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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.

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