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.
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).
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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.
