Abstract: Originally published in volume 21 of the Yearbook of English Studies (1991), this essay considers the relationship between Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered (1581) and Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590), and the ways in which the former can be an aid to interpretation of the latter. It looks at the meaning of the form of Spenser’s epic, and what the choice of the genre of chivalric romance entails for a political interpretation of the poem.
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