‘It would be nice to be taking over as editors of The Spenser Review at any time, but now feels like a very good moment’. The new editors explain why, what they owe to past editors and what they hope to achieve in the near future. Read more…
What does Spenser’s verse sound when read aloud? What might reading this way tell us about his poetry and how might actors make us rethink his writing? A series of academics and theatre professionals tell us about their experience of an important event at Shakespeare’s Globe last summer. Read more…
How invested was Spenser in popular culture? Abigail Shinn argues that we need to explore his relationship to a more diverse range of sources and texts than we invariably do if we wish to understand the strange and challenging nature of his verse. Read more…
Matthew Woodcock wonders what we might learn from a comparison of Spenser and Thomas Churchyard. We all know that both received pensions from Elizabeth but is there more to say about the relationship between the old and the new poet? Read more…
Bas relief from the exterior of the Scuola San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice. Photo courtesy of Roger Kuin.
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- Judith Anderson, Light and Death —
- Ania Loomba & Melissa E. Sanchez, Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies —
- Raphael Lyne, Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature —
- Robert Lanier Reid, Renaissance Psychologies —
- Jason Crawford, Allegory and Enchantment —
- Simon Thurley, Houses of Power —
- Trevor Joyce, Fastness: a Translation from the English of Edmund Spenser —