The Faerie Queene as Satirical Intertext for The Alchemist
| Autor: | Vaught, Jennifer C. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Spenser
Edmund 1552?-1599. faerie queene : disposed into twelve bookes fashioning XII. morall vertues English literature--Early modern 1500-1700 Jonson Ben 1573?-1637. alchemist a comedy : first acted in the year 1610 by the King's Majesty's servants with the allowance of the Master of Revels Satire English drama--17th century Jonson Ben 1573?-1637 English poetry--Early modern 1500-1700 Intertextuality Spenser Edmund 1552?-1599 |
| ISSN: | 2626-8183 |
| DOI: | 10.25623/conn030-vaught-1 |
| Popis: | Connotations - A Journal for Critical Debate, E-ISSN 2626-8183, Vol. 30, p. 48-66 Building on Rachel Hile���s important study Spenserian Satire: A Tradition of Indirection, which largely focuses on Spenser���s shorter poems in The Complaints, this essay calls attention to the satirical dimension of his longest poem The Faerie Queene. Intertextual connections between The Faerie Queene and The Alchemist reveal how Jonson read Spenser as inspiration for satire, parody, and comedy. In The Alchemist Jonson appropriates Spenser���s Gloriana, the Faerie Queene; the Wandering Wood in Book I; and Braggadocchio, Mammon, and the Castle of Alma in Book II of The Faerie Queene for satirical ends. In his city comedy Jonson borrows these figures and episodes from The Faerie Queene to satirize the aristocracy, greed for wealth, hedonism, environmental pollution, social mobility, and the misuse of language. Jonson���s extensive annotations in his copy of the 1617 Folio of The Faerie Queene and Complaints, which denote how he responded to Spenser around 1617 and afterwards, further illuminate how he imitated him in writing by 1610 when The Alchemist was first performed. Like Jonson, Spenser���s early readers through to 1660 appropriated The Faerie Queene to satirize political leaders and existing religious institutions in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Reader reception of Spenser���s works in the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline eras contributes to his afterlife as biting satirist not only for Mother Hubberds Tale in The Complaints but also for The Faerie Queene. |
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