Research Catalog

Title

A supplement of the Faery Queene / by Ralph Knevet ; edited by Christopher Burlinson and Andrew Zurcher.

Author

Knevet, Ralph, 1600-1671

Publication

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Burlinson, Christopher
• Zurcher, Andrew
• Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.

Description

viii, 349 pages; 29 cm

Summary

• "Offers a complete and the only published, edited text of Ralph Knevet's important 1635 continuation or 'supplement' to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Includes a critical introduction, a textual introduction, a glossary, a comprehensive textual apparatus, and an extensive critical commentary to help new readers enjoy, understand, and contextualise Knevet's work. Helps to shed new light on the practice of English renaissance allegorical writing. Detailed critical notes identify the poem's huge range of historical, mythical, and intertextual references ..."
• "Ralph Knevet, a member of the Norfolk gentry and client of the Knevet and Paston families, completed his three-book continuation of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in 1635, on the eve of the English Civil War. Like Spenser's poem, Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene 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. In his largely topical allegory, Knevet shadows recent English history, along with the major military and political events of the Dutch wars against Catholic Spain, and the first decades of the Thirty Years War. But his work also constellates a range of other generic, mythic, and scholarly sources, from Pliny's Natural History and Ovid's Metamorphoses, to the works of Italian poets such as Lodovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, to the popular French masterpiece, Du Bartas' La Sepmaine, along with more recent works on astrology, gem-lore, herbal medicine, and physiology. Knevet's encyclopaedic ambitions in the Supplement combine with his historical account of Protestant military and political struggle across Europe 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."--

Series Statement

The Manchester Spenser

Uniform Title

Manchester Spenser.

Subjects

• English poetry > 17th century
• English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Criticism, Textual
• English poetry > Early modern
• 1500 - 1700
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349).

Call Number

JFF 16-582

ISBN

• 9780719082597
• 0719082595

OCLC

910978206

Author

Knevet, Ralph, 1600-1671, author.

Title

A supplement of the Faery Queene / by Ralph Knevet ; edited by Christopher Burlinson and Andrew Zurcher.

Publisher

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Manchester Spenser

Manchester Spenser.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-349).

Chronological Term

1500 - 1700

Added Author

Burlinson, Christopher, editor.

Zurcher, Andrew, editor.

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.

Research Call Number

JFF 16-582