The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy. George Oppitz-Trotman. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019. xiv + 258 pp. £80.
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DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2021.193
Abstract: with which human problems are usually met” (314). Spenserian Moments teaches us how to read The Faerie Queene by opening ourselves to its strangeness, by allowing its improvisation to invite us into “the poet’s open… read more here.
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“To Please the Best, and th’Evill to Embase”: Slavery Logic in Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book VI
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DOI: 10.1086/724436
Abstract: This essay argues that Spenser’s depiction of courtesy in Book VI of The Faerie Queene is structured by a Platonic conceptual structure that I am calling “slavery logic.” Slavery logic emerges from Plato’s use of… read more here.
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Mirabella's Crime and the Laws of Love in The Faerie Queene 6.7–8
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DOI: 10.1353/sip.2018.0003
Abstract: Abstract:In an often-neglected episode from book 6 of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, the beautiful courtly lady Mirabella rejects the love of numerous suitors and thereby causes their death. For her transgression, she is tried and… read more here.
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