Renaissance psychologies : Spenser and Shakespeare /

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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. Renaissanc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reid, Robert Lanier, 1943- (Author)
Other Authors: Lethbridge, J. B. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.
Series:Manchester Spenser.
Subjects:
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Influence.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599. > Faerie queene.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Themes, motives.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599
Faerie queene (Spenser, Edmund)
Fairies in literature.
Fées dans la littérature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
Fairies in literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Themes, motives
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • part I. Anatomy of human nature
  • 1. The charismatic queen and the centrality of self-love
  • 2. Depicting passion
  • 3. Depicting intellect ('Experience, though noon auctoritee')
  • 4. Depicting soul and spirit : Spenser and Shakespeare
  • part II. Holistic design
  • 5. Hierarchic architecture in The faerie queene
  • 6. Shakespeare's plays as passional cycles : revealing the unconscious in chiastic symmetry
  • 7. End-songs : final vistas of Spenser and Shakespeare
  • Epilogue.

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