1st Edition
Spenser’s Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton The Faerie Queene as Intertextual Environment
By Jennifer C. Vaught
Copyright 2025
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spenser’s long and shorter poems for creating comedy, parody, and satire. Their appropriations, which were widely influential on communities of readers, writers, and intertextual networks from 1590–1660, left an abiding impression of Spenser as a biting satirist. Spenser’s Afterlife from... Read more
Introduction: Spenser's Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton: The Faerie Queene as Intertextual Environment, 1. The Phenomenology of Reading, Ecological Awareness, and Making of Satire in The Faerie Queene 1., 2. Shakespeare's Memories of Spenser's Creations in the Elizabethan Playhouse: Animals, Places, and Powerful Things, 3. Jonson's Spenser and the Political Act of Satire in Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline England, 4. Spenser's The Faerie Queene in Republican and Royalist Networks: Marvell, Sir Thomas Fairfax, and Milton, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Jennifer C. Vaught is Professor of English at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Most recently, she is the author of Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser (2019) and coeditor with Judith H. Anderson of the essay collection Shakespeare and Donne: Generic Hybrids and the Cultural Imaginary (2013).
