Spenser and the Table Round
Subtitle: a study in the contemporaneous background for Spenser's use of the Arthurian legend.
Series: Harvard studies in comparative literature,; 8
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1932
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 -- Knowledge -- Literature; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Arthurian romances -- Adaptations -- History and criticism; Medievalism -- England -- History -- 16th century; Literature, Comparative -- Themes, motives; Knights and knighthood in literature; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Sources; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Sources
Description: "I have aimed to assist those readers who may wish to look at the Faerie queene in its historical perspective, and to this end I have attempted to scan the Arthurian background of Tudor and Stuart England."--Preface.
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes": p. [147]-203.