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Guilty Creatures : Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

A study of how poets treat the theme of killing and other depravities in Renaissance poetry. Among the poems used to explore the concept of authorial guilt raised by violent representations, are Skelton's "Phyllyp Sparowe", Spenser's "Faerie Queene", and Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
eBook, English, 2001
Oxford University Press, New York, 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (279 pages)
9780195349528, 9780199753376, 0195349520, 0199753377
476023069
Contents; Introduction: The Renaissance Killing Poem; ONE: Courting Heresy and Taking the Subject: John Skelton's Precedent; TWO: Spenser and the Poetics of Indiscretion; THREE: The Properties of Shakespeare's Globe; FOUR: The Witch of Edmonton and the Guilt of Possession; FIVE: Samson's Death by Theater and Milton's Art of Dying; SIX: Guilt and the Constitution of Authorship in Henry V and the Antitheatrical Elegies of W.S. and Milton; Notes; Index