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Author_Patricia Wareh
Baldassare Castiglione
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courtesy
Edmund Spenser
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Faerie Queene
Love's Labour's Lost
Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
Nennio
William Shakespeare
Winter's Tale
Product details
- ISBN 9781526195487
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Patricia Wareh is professor of English at Union College
