Spenser's Faerie Queene (1609)
SPENSER, Edmund (c. 1552-1599)
The Faerie Queene. London: Humphrey Lownes for Matthew Lownes, 1609.
Shakespeare derived the form of Cordelia's name in King Lear and the manner of her death by hanging from Spenser's Faerie Queen. Moreover, Book VII of The Faerie Queen, in which Mirabella is guarded by the allegorical characters Disdain and Scorn, seems to have influenced Shakespeare's creation of Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, who has "Disdain and Scorn sparkling in her eyes." See Kenneth Muir, Shakespeare’s Sources (London, 1957), pp. 54, 143.
Folio. The second issue of the first collected edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene. First title-page in early manuscript facsimile. The second part has separate dated title-page on Q5r; pagination and register are continuous. Lacking "Tvvo cantos of mutabilitie", p. 353-end. Some early manuscript underlinings. Disbound. Custom full calf clamshell case, slightly rubbed.
References: STC 23083; ESTC S1728; Pforzheimer 971.
SPENSER, Edmund (c. 1552-1599)
The Faerie Queene. London: Humphrey Lownes for Matthew Lownes, 1609.
Shakespeare derived the form of Cordelia's name in King Lear and the manner of her death by hanging from Spenser's Faerie Queen. Moreover, Book VII of The Faerie Queen, in which Mirabella is guarded by the allegorical characters Disdain and Scorn, seems to have influenced Shakespeare's creation of Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, who has "Disdain and Scorn sparkling in her eyes." See Kenneth Muir, Shakespeare’s Sources (London, 1957), pp. 54, 143.
Folio. The second issue of the first collected edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene. First title-page in early manuscript facsimile. The second part has separate dated title-page on Q5r; pagination and register are continuous. Lacking "Tvvo cantos of mutabilitie", p. 353-end. Some early manuscript underlinings. Disbound. Custom full calf clamshell case, slightly rubbed.
References: STC 23083; ESTC S1728; Pforzheimer 971.
SPENSER, Edmund (c. 1552-1599)
The Faerie Queene. London: Humphrey Lownes for Matthew Lownes, 1609.
Shakespeare derived the form of Cordelia's name in King Lear and the manner of her death by hanging from Spenser's Faerie Queen. Moreover, Book VII of The Faerie Queen, in which Mirabella is guarded by the allegorical characters Disdain and Scorn, seems to have influenced Shakespeare's creation of Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, who has "Disdain and Scorn sparkling in her eyes." See Kenneth Muir, Shakespeare’s Sources (London, 1957), pp. 54, 143.
Folio. The second issue of the first collected edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene. First title-page in early manuscript facsimile. The second part has separate dated title-page on Q5r; pagination and register are continuous. Lacking "Tvvo cantos of mutabilitie", p. 353-end. Some early manuscript underlinings. Disbound. Custom full calf clamshell case, slightly rubbed.
References: STC 23083; ESTC S1728; Pforzheimer 971.