Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene' : A Reading Guide

Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience.

The series enables readers to re-engage with the long poem as a vital form. Volumes provide generous extracts, or in some cases complete poems, from significant works combined with a reading guide and teaching tips from enthusiastic lecturers who have taught the poem.

Introduces a Renaissance masterpiece to a modern audience

This Guide will help new readers to understand and enjoy The Faerie Queene, drawing attention to its various ironies, its self-reflexive construction, its visual emphasis and the timeless ethical, political and literary questions that it asks of all of us. The book includes key selections from the poem (each accompanied by a headnote, commentary and glosses), historical and critical discussions, teaching and learning plans and a guide to further resources in electronic and print media.

Key Femmes

Contains substantial selections from The Faerie Queene

Provides an integrated introduction to Spenser''s life, the intellectual and historical context of his writing and the poem''s critical reception

Includes a range of suggestions for teaching and learning about the poem, both in formal seminars and through independent study

Contains a bibliography of'' further resources, including a list of editions, a list of key critical studies of the poem and a selection of useful websites