A king for the queene: Samuel Sheppard's the faerie king and his reception of Spenser's epic authority

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dc.contributor.advisorKing, Andrewen
dc.contributor.advisorKnowles, Jamesen
dc.contributor.authorO'Mahony, Cian
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-21T10:24:43Z
dc.date.available2014-01-21T10:24:43Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.submitted2013
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is the study of the use and abuse of Edmund Spenser as an authority in native English epic literature of the early seventeenth century, within fifty years of his death. It focuses on attempts to emulate or adapt his seminal text, The Faerie Queene (1596), and offers a comparative analysis of two such approaches by the liminal authors, Ralph Knevet and Samuel Sheppard. The former, a tutor to the wealthy Norfolk Paston family, produced his A Supplement of the Ferie Queene in the pre-Civil War period (c.1630-1635), while the latter wrote The Faerie King at the very end of the social upheaval of the war (c.1648-54). The thesis privileges the study of the holograph manuscripts (Cambridge University Library, MS Ee.3.53 and Bodleian Library MS Rawl. Poet. 28 respectively) over the basic editions of these neglected texts. It argues for the need to re-evaluate the significance of such texts within the Spenserian canon and, through new readings of the texts' structures and contexts, the thesis questions the legitimacy of canon formation and continuation, as well as the influence editorial policies and decision making can have on subsequent readers and receptions of the texten
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dc.identifier.citationO'Mahony, C. 2013. A king for the queene: Samuel Sheppard's the faerie king and his reception of Spenser's epic authority. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/1314
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2013, Cian O' Mahonyen
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dc.subjectEnglish Civil Waren
dc.subjectSeventeenth-century epicen
dc.subjectAdaptation and appropriationen
dc.subjectEnglish literature - history and criticismen
dc.subjectSpenser studiesen
dc.subject.lcshSheppard, S. (Samuel)en
dc.subject.lcshSpenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599--Criticism and interpretationen
dc.subject.lcshEnglish poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticismen
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dc.titleA king for the queene: Samuel Sheppard's the faerie king and his reception of Spenser's epic authorityen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD (Arts)en
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