A Supplement of the Faery Queene: By Ralph Knevet

A Supplement of the Faery Queene: By Ralph Knevet

A Supplement of the Faery Queene: By Ralph Knevet

A Supplement of the Faery Queene: By Ralph Knevet

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Overview

Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles – a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style. The poem shadows recent English history, and the major military and political events of the Thirty Years War. But the Supplement is also an ambitiously intertextual poem, weaving together materials from mythic, literary, historical, scientific, theological, and many other kinds of written sources. Its encyclopaedic ambitions combine with Knevet's historical focus to produce an allegorical epic poem of considerable interest and power. This new edition of Knevet's Supplement, the first scholarly text of the poem ever published, situates it in its literary, historical, biographical, and intellectual contexts. An extensive introduction and copious critical commentary, positioned at the back of the book, will enable students and scholars alike to access Knevet's complicated and enigmatic meanings, structures, and allusions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781526158581
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 01/26/2021
Series: The Manchester Spenser
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Christopher Burlinson is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge
J.B. Lethbridge is Lecturer in English at Tübingen University J. B. Lethbridge is Lecturer in English Literature at Tübingen University
Andrew Zurcher is a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge

Table of Contents

Introduction

Knevet's Language: A Supplementary Glossary of Frequently Used Terms

[Knevet's] Preface

A Supplement of the Faery Queene

Commentary

Bibliography

Index
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