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Jennifer C. Vaught illustrates how architectural rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser provides a bridge between the human body and mind and the nonhuman world of stone and timber. The recurring figure of the body as a besieged castle in Shakespeare's drama and Spenser's allegory reveals that their works are mutually based on medieval architectural allegories exemplified by the morality play The Castle of Perseverance. Intertextual and analogous connections between the generically hybrid works of Shakespeare and Spenser demonstrate how they conceived of individuals not in isolation from the physical environment but in profound relation to it. This book approaches the interlacing of identity and place in terms of ecocriticism, posthumanism, cognitive theory, and Cicero's art of memory. Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser examines figures of the permeable body as a fortified, yet vulnerable structure in Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, romances, and Sonnets and in Spenser's Faerie Queene and Complaints.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: The Besieged Castle in Books I and II of The Faerie Queene
Chapter Two: Castles in the Air: The Figurative Frame of Mind in the Second Henriad
Chapter Three: Under Lock and Key: The Body as a House in Book III of The Faerie Queene
Chapter Four: The Figure of the Ruined City in Spenser's Ruines of Rome and Shakespeare's Sonnets, Troilus and Cressida, and Coriolanus
Chapter Five: Situating the Elemental Passions in Books IV-V of The Faerie Queene and Antony and Cleopatra
Chapter Six: The Architectural Place of the Mind in Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest
Endnotes
Bibliography
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