Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete

Front matter\nContents\nList of figures\nList of contributors\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\nChaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde in Spenser’s Amoretti and The Faerie Queene: reading historically and intertextually\n‘Litle herd gromes piping in the wind’: The Shepheardes Calender, The House of Fame and ‘La Compleynt’\nDiverse pageants: normative arrays of sexuality\nThe source of poetry: Pernaso, Paradise and Spenser’s Chaucerian craft\nChaucer in Ireland: archaism, etymology and the idea of development\nWise wights in privy places: rhyme and stanza form in Spenser and Chaucer\nRomancing Geoffrey: Chaucer and romance in the manuscript tradition\nCultivating Chaucerian antiquity in The Shepheardes Calender\nWorthy friends: Speght’s Chaucer and Speght’s Spenser\nChaucer’s ‘beast group’ and ‘Mother Hubberds Tale’\nPropagating authority: poetic tradition in The Parliament of Fowls and the Mutabilitie Cantos\n‘New matter framed upon the old’: Chaucer, Spenser and Luke Shepherd’s ‘New Poet’\nSelect bibliography of books and essays on Chaucer and Spenser\nIndex