Imitations of Spenser in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author / Editor
Bednarz, James P.

Title
Imitations of Spenser in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Published
RenD 14 : 79-102, 1983.

Description
Sensitive to contemporary political events, Shakespeare parodies Spenser's Tears of the Muses in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In addition, the dream of the elf queen in Chaucer's Th is the source of Bottom's dream, as well as Arthur's dream in Faerie Queene.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Tale of Sir Thopas