TY - BOOK AU - Reid,Robert Lanier TI - Renaissance Psychologies: Spenser and Shakespeare SN - 9781526109194 AV - PR2248 .R453 2017 U1 - 821/.3 PY - 2017/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Spenser, Edmund,-1552?-1599-nfluence KW - Shakespeare, William,-1564-1616-Themes, motives KW - Fairies in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Renaissance psychologies -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Anatomy of human nature -- 1 The charismatic queen and the centrality of self-love -- 2 Depicting passion -- 3 Depicting intellect: 'Experience, though noon auctoritee' -- 4 Depicting soul and spirit: Spenser and Shakespeare -- Part II: Holistic design -- 5 Hierarchic architecture in The Faerie Queene -- 6 Shakespeare's plays as passional cycles: revealing the unconscious in chiastic symmetry -- 7 End-songs: final vistas of Spenser and Shakespeare -- Epilogue -- General index -- Index of themes and symbols N2 - Spenser and Shakespeare both wrote with epic scope, a comprehensive view of human nature, but their characters and plots sprung from radically distinct psychologies. Renaissance psychologies explores this polarity, questioning the very distinct concepts of these two great poets and how they are related UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5160912 ER -