Spenser’s Popular Pastoral: Hodgepodges and Genre Trouble in The Shepheardes Calender
The article explores the role played by popular culture in Edmund Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender (1579). Highlighting references to almanacs, ballads and festival culture, alongside the poem’s use of regional and colloquial language, I argue that Spenser’s distinctly English pastoral includes a comm...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/14227 |