Spenser’S Afterlife From Shakespeare To Milton The Faerie Queene As Intertextual Environment

This study explores how Shakespeare Ben Jonson Andrew Marvell and Milton among many others appropriated Spenser’s long and shorter poems for creating comedy parody and satire. Their appropriations which were widely influential on communities of readers writers and intertextual networks from 1590–1660 left an abiding impression of Spenser as a biting satirist. Spenser’s Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton: 'The Faerie Queene' as Intertextual Environment is the first study to combine the reception history of The Faerie Queene with ecocriticism animal studies and posthumanist tenets of vital materialism and the power of things. This poem functions as a powerful nonhuman agent that transforms how readers respond to their environments. The Faerie Queene and its afterlives move readers to perceive flaws in political social and religious figureheads and institutions to envision better ones. |Spenser’s Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton The Faerie Queene as Intertextual Environment