Spenser's Squire's Literary History

Author / Editor
Kennedy, William J.

Title
Spenser's Squire's Literary History

Published
Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman, eds. Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), pp. 45-62.

Description
Kennedy examines how Spenser fused aspects of Chaucer's Thopas and SqT with features of Ariosto's Innkeeper's Tale (Orlando Furioso 28) in creating his Squire of Dames, found in books 3 and 4 of Faerie Queene.

Contributor
Cheney, Patrick, ed.
Silberman, Laura, ed.

Alternative Title
Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.