Perdita, Pastorella, and the Romance of Literary Form: Shakespeare’s Counter-Spenserian Authorship
Perdita, Pastorella, and the Romance of Literary Form: Shakespeare’s Counter-Spenserian Authorship
This chapter explores Shakespeare's counter-Spenserian authorship, emphasising the importance of re-thinking Shakespearean authorship, because most critics still see Shakespeare as a ‘man of the theatre’. It also examines one example of Shakespeare's counter-Spenserian authorship, and tries to recover Shakespeare's concern for literary authorship within the anonymity of the medium of theatre. The analysis presented in the chapter helps in questioning two well-known and interrelated views of Shakespeare's career.
Keywords: counter-Spenserian authorship, Shakespearean authorship, literary authorship, theatrical medium, Shakespeare's career
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