Table of Contents

IntroductionRichard A. McCabe:
Abbreviations
Illustrations
List of contributors
Section 1: Contexts
1: Willy Maley: Spenser's Life
2: Claire McEachern: Spenser and Religion
3: David Baker: Spenser and Politics
4: Andrew Zurcher & Chris Burlinson: Spenser's Secretarial Career
5: Ciaran Brady: Spenser's Plantation
6: Wayne Erickson: Spenser's Patrons and Publishers
7: Paul D. Stegner: Spenser's Biographers
Section 2: Works
8: Tom MacFaul: A Theatre for Worldlings (1569)
9: Clare Kinney: The Shepheardes Calender (1579)
10: Joseph Campana: Letters (1580)
11: Linda Gregerson: The Faerie Queene (1590)
12: Mark Rasmussen: Complaints, Daphnaïda (1591)
13: Patrick Cheney: Colin Clovts, Astrophel (1595)
14: Roland Greene: Amoretti and Epithalamion (1595)
15: Elizabeth Jane Bellamy: The Faerie Queene (1596)
16: David Lee Miller: Fowre Hymnes, Prothalamion (1596)
17: Elizabeth Fowler: A View of the Present State of Ireland (1596, 1633)
18: Gordon Teskey: Two Cantos of Mutabilitie (1609)
19: Lisa Celovsky & Joseph Black: 'Lost Works', Suppositious Pieces, and Continuations
Section 3: Poetic Craft
20: Dorothy Stephens: Spenser's Language(s)
21: Jeff Dolven: Spenser's Metrics
22: Colin Burrow: Spenser's Genres
23: Peter Mack: Spenser and Rhetoric
24: Kenneth Borris: Emblem, Allegory and Symbol
25: Richard A. McCabe: Authorial Self-presentation
Section 4: Sources and Influences
26: Carol Kaske: Spenser and the Bible
27: Syrithe Pugh: Spenser and Classical Literature
28: Andrew Escobedo: Spenser and Philosophy
29: Bart van Es: Spenser and Historiography
30: Andrew King: Spenser, Chaucer and Medieval Romance
31: Lee Piepho: Spenser and Neo-Latin Literature
32: Elizabeth Heale: Spenser and Sixteenth-Century Poetics
33: Jason Lawrence: Spenser and Italian Literature
34: Anne Lake Prescott: Spenser and French Literature
Section 5: Reception
35: Joe Loewenstein: Spenser's Textual History
36: Michelle O'Callaghan: Spenser's Literary Influence
37: Claire Preston: Spenser and the Visual Arts
38: David Wilson-Okamura: The Formalist Tradition
39: John D. Staines: The Historicist Tradition
40: Theresa Krier: Gender Studies
41: Elizabeth D. Harvey: Psychoanalytical Criticism
42: Andrew Hadfield: Postcolonial Spenser
Index

About the Author

Richard A. McCabe is Fellow of Merton College, and Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University. He was elected FBA in 2007. He is author of Joseph Hall: A Study in Satire and Meditation (1982), The Pillars of Eternity: Time and Providence in 'The Faerie Queene' (1989), Incest, Drama, and Nature's Law 1550-1700 (1993), and Spenser's Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference (2002).
He has edited Edmund Spenser: The Shorter Poems for Penguin (1999). With Howard Erskine-Hill he co-edited Presenting Poetry: Composition, Publication, Reception (1995), and with David Womersley Literary Milieux: Essays in Text and
Context presented to Howard Erskine-Hill.

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