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October 2, 2025

Tasso on Spenser: The Politics of Chivalric Romance

Key Points

The essay reveals how Tasso's narrative offers insights into the interpretation of Spenser's epic.
A key metric is the exploration of the chivalric romance genre's implications for political themes.
Analysis focuses on narrative form and its significance in interpreting Spenser's work effectively.
The findings indicate that examining chivalric elements can deepen understanding of political contexts in literature.

Abstract

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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Richard Helgerson (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de84c45b556a9128e1c049 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1353/yes.00013

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