Spenser’s Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton: The Faerie Queene as Intertextual Environment (1)

By: Jennifer C. Vaught

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Synopsis: 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 Shakespeare to Milton: 'The Faerie Queene' as Intertextual Environment is the first study to combine the reception history of The Faerie Queene with ecocriticism, animal studies, and posthumanist tenets of vital materialism and the power of things. This poem functions as a powerful, nonhuman agent that transforms how readers respond to their environments. The Faerie Queene and its afterlives move readers to perceive flaws in political, social, and religious figureheads and institutions to envision better ones.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 198 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040800584
Related ISBNs:: 9781003704249, 9789048558292, 9781040795668
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/02/25
Copyrighted By:: J.C. Vaught / Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.