Introduction. Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare: Methodological Investigations
1. Beyond Binarism: Eros/Death and Venus/Mars in Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra and Spenser’s Faerie Queene
2. Spenser and Shakespeare: Polarized Approaches to Psychology, Poetics, and Patronage
3. Perdita, Pastorella, and the Romance of Literary Form: Shakespeare’s Counter-Spenserian Authorship
4. Pastoral Forms and Religious Reform in Spenser and Shakespeare
5. The Equinoctial Boar: Venus and Adonis in Spenser’s Garden, Shakespeare’s Epyllion and Richard III’s England
6. Hamlet’s debt to Spenser’s Mother Hubberds Tale: A Satire on Robert cecil?
7. Fusion: Spenserian Metaphor and Sidnean Example in Shakespeares King Lear
8. What means a Knight? Red Cross Knight and Edgar
9. The Seven Deadly Sins and Shakespeare’s Jacobean Tragedies
Works Cited
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