Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser

Jennifer C. Vaught

Published by Medieval Institute Publications 2019

Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser

Jennifer C. Vaught

Volume 24 in the series Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513152

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Jennifer C. Vaught illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber. The recurring figure of the body as a besieged castle in Shakespeare’s drama and Spenser’s allegory reveals that their works are mutually based on medieval architectural allegories exemplified by the morality play The Castle of Perseverance. Intertextual and analogous connections between the generically hybrid works of Shakespeare and Spenser demonstrate how they conceived of individuals not in isolation from the physical environment but in profound relation to it. This book approaches the interlacing of identity and place in terms of ecocriticism, posthumanism, cognitive theory, and Cicero’s art of memory. Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser examines figures of the permeable body as a fortified, yet vulnerable structure in Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, tragedies, romances, and Sonnets and in Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Complaints.

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Jennifer C. Vaught, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.

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"Vaught convincingly demonstrates that images of the besieged castle are central to Shakespeare’s and Spenser’s literary works and, in some instances, how Spenser influenced Shakespeare in his use of this imagery. She has what is needed to pursue this kind of argument: an ear and eye finely attuned to intertextual allusion and resonance."

--Vin Nardizzi, The University of British Columbia

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. Body-Building: The Besieged Castle in Books I and II of The Faerie Queene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter Two. Castles in the Air: The Figurative Frame of Mind in Shakespeare’s Second Henriad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter Three. Under Lock and Key: The Body as a House in Book III of The Faerie Queene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter Four. Ruined Cities and Dividing Walls: Spenser’s Ruines of Rome, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Troilus and Cressida, and Coriolanus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter Five. The Passionate Body as a Built Environment: Books IV–V of The Faerie Queene and Antony and Cleopatra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Chapter Six. The Architectural Place of the Mind: Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Endnotes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217

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Language: English
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Audience: Medievalists, scholars of Literary and Rhetoric Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 227
Keywords: Shakespeare; Spenser; English Renaissance Literature; Rhetoric; Architecture; Environment

eBook

Published: September 23, 2019
ISBN: 9781501513152

Hardcover

Published: September 23, 2019
ISBN: 9781501517938