It’s been quite a year for Colin Clout. Such a year that he almost seems like a different person at the end of the calendar than at the beginning. Still a shepherd, but what a change in his shepherd skills! And what a change, I would argue, in the knowledge base that supports or doesn’t support those shepherd skills. Read more…
This paper, presented as part of the panel ‘Spenser’s Afterlives II’ at the 2019 RSA meeting in Toronto, offers a brief account of recent developments in Japanese translation and criticism of Spenser, in the hope that a broader acknowledgment of Spenser studies in Japan will open exciting avenues for scholarly research and will be of interest to the early modernist community at large. Read more…
When I first met Professor Yulia Ryzhik, on the first day of the International Spenser Society Conference in Dublin in 2015, she told me that she was doing research on Spenser and Donne. Read more…
Professor Tadhg O’Keeffe, the accomplished Irish archaeologist and architectural historian, writes in Spenser Review a detailed and imaginative essay on Spenser’s architectural environs in Munster. O’Keeffe offers a valuable study of the poet’s ‘experiential’ existence at home at Kilcolman, and he makes further analysis within this context of contemporary building and settlement schemes in Munster of Sir Walter Raleigh and the Norris family. Read more…
Informed conversation between architectural-historians and Spenserians on the buildings of Spenser’s world, especially when focused on how those buildings shaped (and indeed were shaped by) the experiences and perceptions of natives and planters alike, can only enrich our collective understanding of Ireland at the end of the sixteenth century. Read more…
Bas relief from the exterior of the Scuola San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice. Photo courtesy of Roger Kuin.
- Anne Lake Prescott, William A. Oram, Andrew Escobedo and Susannah Brietz Monta, eds., Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual —
- Johnathan H. Pope, ed., Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island; or, The Isle of Man —
- Edward Wilson, ed., A Middle English Translation from Petrarch's Secretum —
- Gianni Guastella, Word of Mouth: Fama and its Personifications in Art and Literature from Ancient Rome to the Middle Ages —
- Richard Firth Green, Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church —
- Anna-Maria Hartmann, English Mythography in its European Context: 1500–1650 —
- Anna Beer, Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh —
- Kathleen Christian and Bianca de Divitiis, eds., Local Antiquities, Local Identities: Art, Literature and antiquarianism in Europe, c. 1400-1700 —
- Thomas Fulton and Kristen Poole, eds., The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England —
- Suparna Roychoudhury, Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science —
- Claire McEachern, Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in Longing —
- Harriet Archer, Unperfect Histories: The Mirror for Magistrates, 1559–1610 —