Renaissance Psychologies - Spenser and Shakespeare

Spenser and Shakespeare both wrote with epic scope, a comprehensive view of human nature, but their characters and plots sprung from radically distinct psychologies. Renaissance psychologies explores this polarity, questioning the very distinct concepts of these two great poets and how they are related.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: Anatomy of human nature
1. The charismatic queen and the centrality of self-love
2. Depicting passion
3. Depicting intellect ('Experience, though noon auctoritee')
4. Depicting soul and spirit: Spenser and Shakespeare
Part II: Holistic design
5. Hierarchic architecture in The Faerie Queene
6. Shakespeare's plays as passional cycles: revealing the unconscious in chiastic symmetry
7. End-songs: final vistas of Spenser and Shakespeare
Epilogue
Index

About the author

Robert Lanier Reid is H. C. Stuart Professor Emeritus of English at Emory and Henry College

Summary

Spenser and Shakespeare both wrote with epic scope, a comprehensive view of human nature, but their characters and plots sprung from radically distinct psychologies. Renaissance psychologies explores this polarity, questioning the very distinct concepts of these two great poets and how they are related. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Robert Reid, Robert Lanier Reid
• Assisted by: J. B. Lethbridge (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.01.2017
• EAN: 9781526109170
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0917-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: The Manchester Spenser; The Manchester Spenser
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies