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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. |
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