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10 Sep 2017: Biographers show little interest in his support of education, but apart from a major grant to the Middle Temple, he founded Chairs at both Oxford and Cambridge in memory of the ... 4. It’s there, but it costs too much. Often the really good stuff —

10 Sep 2017: The final chapter proposes that court masques and civic pageants offered competing economic and literary models. ... As this chapter persuasively demonstrates, economic, political, and literary concerns continued to intersect in seventeenth-century

10 Sep 2017: Vewes concern with political control and economics most accurately represents the political paradoxes of Spenser's own position in Elizabethan society. ... Shepherd's discussion of the sexual politics of The Faerie Queene also shows how identity and "love

10 Sep 2017: Suzuki then turns to middle-class women writers such as Aemilia Lanyer and Rachel Speght, focusing on their strategies-such as biblical reinterpretation and references to Spenser-to counter the prevalent ... Here Suzuki focuses on Elizabeth Cellier and

10 Sep 2017: current) popularity of our subject amongst benighted young school-leavers not yet ready to devote themselves to subjects more obviously conducive to ‘economic benefits’. ... What might careful historical and theoretical enquiry, drawing upon a

10 Sep 2017: reader. She learns to order and propagate the Middle Earth that Spenser assumes his reader shares. ... the middle books where Britomart is the focus and the matter is "Lovers Deare Debate".

10 Sep 2017: He takes on Spenser’s legal language as a “test case” (12) for demonstrating that Spenser was “a poet who took his diction, and the ability of his readers to assimilate ... patroness of “the lawes of wedlock.” Finally, in the middle of stanza

10 Sep 2017: It was partially translated by Leornardo Bruni in 1424 and was at the centre of a controversy between Platonists and Aristotelians that raged in the middle part of the century. ... of Guyon's trial in the Cave, the case for it as a test or purging of

10 Sep 2017: By the middle of IV.viii (seemingly the poet's most comfortable canto in each Book), the test is made. ... They end 'lith a lonaing to test the self as both perceiver and creator.

10 Sep 2017: As might be expected, the middle years of Henry's reign receive a great deal of attention in this volume. ... Politics occupy center stage throughout; social and economic matters -- as well as cultural developments -- receive relatively little attention,