Reading the allegorical intertext : Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton /
Anderson, Judith H.
New York : Fordham University Press,
2008.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-422) and index.
Allegorical reflections of The Canterbury tales in The faerie queene. Chaucer's and Spenser's reflexive narrators ; What comes after Chaucer's But in The faerie queene ; "Pricking on the plaine": Spenser's intertextual beginnings and endings ; Allegory, irony, despair: Chaucer's Pardoner's and Franklin's tales and Spenser's Faerie queene, books I and III ; Eumnestes' "immortall serine": Spenser's archive ; Spenser's use of Chaucer's Melibee: allegory, narrative, history -- Agency, allegory, and history within the Spenserian intertext. Spenser's Muiopotmos and Chaucer's Nun's priest's tale ; Arthur and Argante: parodying the ideal vision ; Chaucer's Parliament of fowls and refractions of a veiled Venus in The faerie queene ; The antiquities of fairyland and Ireland ; Better a mischief than an inconvenience: "The saiying self" in Spenser's View of the present state of Ireland -- Spenserian allegory in the intertexts of Shakespeare and Milton. The conspiracy of realism: impasse and vision in The faerie queene and Shakespeare's King Lear ; Venus and Adonis: Spenser, Shakespeare, and the forms of desire ; Flowers and boars: surmounting sexual binarism in Spenser's garden of Adonis ; Androcentrism and Acrasian fantasies in the bower of bliss ; Beyond binarism: eros/death and Venus/Mars in Antony and Cleopatra and The faerie queene ; Patience and passion in Shakespeare and Milton ; "Real or allegoric" in Herbert and Milton: thinking through difference ; Spenser and Milton: the mind's allegorical place.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Milton, John, 1608-1674
English literature
Intertextuality.
Symbolism in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)