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Renaissance Psychologies: Spenser and Shakespeare
Robert Lanier Reid
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A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of passion and intellect, moral counsel, family hierarchy, self-love, temptation, folly, allegory, female heroism, the supernatural and much more. Renaissance psychologies examines the distinct and polarised emphasis of these two towering intellects and writers of the early modern period. It demonstrates how pervasive was the influence of Spenser on Shakespeare, as in the playful metamorphosis of Gloriana into Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and its return from Spenser's moralizing allegory to the Ovidian spirit of Shakespeare's comedy. ... Read more
A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of passion and intellect, moral counsel, family hierarchy, self-love, temptation, folly, allegory, female heroism, the supernatural and much more. Renaissance psychologies examines the distinct and polarised emphasis of these two towering intellects and writers of the early modern period. It demonstrates how pervasive was the influence of Spenser on Shakespeare, as in the playful metamorphosis of Gloriana into Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream and its return from Spenser's moralizing allegory to the Ovidian spirit of Shakespeare's comedy. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
The Manchester Spenser
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781526109170
SKU
V9781526109170
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About Robert Lanier Reid
Robert Lanier Reid is H. C. Stuart Professor Emeritus of English at Emory and Henry College -- .
Reviews for Renaissance Psychologies: Spenser and Shakespeare
'Themonograph is exhaustive in its scholarship, and represents a culmination of acareer of thinking and publishing on Spenser and Shakespeare.' YuliaRyzhik, University of Toronto, Scarborough, The Spenser Review
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