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Courteous Exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's Gentle Dialogues with Readers and Audiences
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Jan 20, 2026
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Courteous Exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's Gentle Dialogues with Readers and Audiences

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Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's plays, showing how both facilitate the critique of Renaissance aristocratic identity. Moving from a consideration of Castiglione's Book of the Courtier as a text that encouraged reader engagement, the book offers new readings of Shakespeare's plays in conjunction with Spenser. It pairs Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter's Tale with The Faerie Queene in order to explore how topics such as education, gender, religion, race, and aristocratic identity are offered up to reader and audience interpretation.

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Pub dateJan 20, 2026
ISBN-101526195488
ISBN-139781526195487
LanguageEnglish
Last updated 2026-09-13 16:25
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