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Editorial Introduction
by Andrew Hadfield and Jane Grogan

Following the bumper issue of creative responses to Spenser in Autumn 2019 (which attracted our largest readership yet), we return to more traditional territory in the present issue with a range of subjects. We begin with an essay by Emily Mayne on the debts to Seneca and the Senecan in Spenser. Dr. Mayne points out that there has been a wealth of critical attention to Spenser’s use of the Latin and Greek authors but, strangely, nothing significant on one of the most cited and influential writers whose work shaped Elizabethan attitudes to tragedy. The essay here should not only spark interest in a gap in intellectual history but point the way to new writing about Spenser. Continuing the classical theme, Emily’s article is complemented by a feature-length book review of Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey, by Deborah Roberts. Classical theory also underlies Jim Ellis’s intriguing recent conference paper on poetry, song and the vegetal soul, which points the way to new thinking about Spenser and the environment. We finish with another timely and topical piece, an account by Kim Coles and Dennis Britton on the genesis across scholarship and social media of a forthcoming important special issue of Spenser Studies on ‘Spenser and Race’.  

The issue also presents eight new book reviews, the first commissions of our new Book Reviews Editors, Tamsin Badcoe and Beth Quitslund, whom we are delighted to welcome aboard. 

Later this year we look forward to a guest-edited special issue on eco-critical approaches to Spenser, with thanks to Tiffany Jo Werth and an able crew of contributors. As always, we are on the lookout for scholarly pieces on new or significant approaches or matters of interest to Spenserians, so do get in touch if you have ideas. 

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Andrew Hadfield and Jane Grogan, "Editorial Introduction," Spenser Review 50.1.1 (Winter 2020).
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/review/item/50.1.1
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