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46.1 (Spring-Summer 2016)

The 2016 Maclean Lecture Roland Greene

In this year’s Hugh Maclean lecture, Roland Greene describes Spenser’s “unwritten poetics.”



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A New Edition of Knevet's Supplement Andrew Hadfield

Andrew Hadfield reviews the latest offering from The Manchester Spenser, an edition of Ralph Knevet’s A Supplement of the Faerie Queene prepared by Christopher Burlinson and Andrew Zurcher.



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Imagining Circles Willy Maley

Willy Maley reviews a new collection from Cambridge on The Shakespeare Circle:



“The fore-title and subtitle suggest something new and different, but the kind of ‘circle’ on offer here is not what many readers would understand from other Early Modern explorations of literary circles, and is ‘alternative’ in ways one would not expect…”



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Bas relief from the exterior of the Scuola San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice. Photo courtesy of Roger Kuin.

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