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Courteous exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's gentle dialogues with readers and audiences (The Manchester Spenser) - Softcover

Wareh, Patricia

 
9781526195487: Courteous exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's gentle dialogues with readers and audiences (The Manchester Spenser)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1526195488 ISBN 13: 9781526195487
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's plays, showing how both facilitate the critique of Renaissance aristocratic identity. Moving from a consideration of Castiglione's Book of the Courtier as a text that encouraged reader engagement, the book offers new readings of Shakespeare's plays in conjunction with Spenser. It pairs Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter's Tale with The Faerie Queene in order to explore how topics such as education, gender, religion, race, and aristocratic identity are offered up to reader and audience interpretation.

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Patricia Wareh is professor of English at Union College

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Courteous Exchanges demonstrates the importance of courtesy as a discourse shaping reader and audience experiences in the English Renaissance. It focuses on significant correspondences between the works of Spenser and Shakespeare, but it also considers how Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier provided these two authors with a rich mine of concepts and vocabulary and a predecessor in the art of encouraging reader engagement in these terms of analysis.

Wareh analyses Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale in tandem with The Faerie Queene, examining how such topics as education, gender, religion, race, and aristocratic identity are offered up to reader and audience interpretation. She suggests that Renaissance audiences and readers, through the reflections and responses provoked by this process, were led into a recognition of their overlapping roles as judges of texts and people. The habits of thought they thus developed supported a critical evaluation of the cultural fiction of inherited gentility and the social performance of courtesy that supports it.

The book offers up novel connections between Spenser and Shakespeare, demonstrating that their works contributed to the social construction of Renaissance aristocratic identity, but they also provided tools for its critique.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526195488
ISBN 13 
9781526195487
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
290
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