Spenser's 'Shepheardes Calendar' and Protestant Pastoral Satire
- Author / Editor
- King, John N.
Spenser's 'Shepheardes Calendar' and Protestant Pastoral Satire
- Published
- Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, ed. Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation. Harvard English Studies, no. 14 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986), pp. 369-98.
- Description
- Connects Spenser's "association of pastoral with a Protestant gospel ethos" in "Shepheardes Calendar" with the Renaissance construction of medieval anticlerical satire as proto-Protestant. The spurious attribution of the "Plowman's Tale" to Chaucer and the broader approval of Langland's "Piers Plowman" and its derivatives aligned bucolic pastorals and Protestant ideals, enabling (and enabled by) Spenser's veneration of Chaucer and reflected in his use of the pastoral genre in his "Calendar."
- Contributor
- Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
- Plowman and the Tale