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- Title
Spenser and the Stuart Succession.
- Authors
Hadfield, Andrew
- Abstract
This article argues that the fear of the Stuart succession was an impending political possibility that influenced the shape of Spenser's writing career, after he had offended James I with his representation of James's mother, Mary Stuart as Duessa in The Faerie Queene , Book V, canto 9. Although we do not know exactly how The Faerie Queene was written, it is likely that the posthumously published, ‘Two Cantos of Mutabilitie’, were among the last verses that Spenser wrote. If so, a strong case can be made that the figure of Mutability was designed to show readers that the threat to the English Reformation from the Stuarts lived on after Mary's death in 1587 through the ambitions of her son, James.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ARISTOCRACY (Social class); BIOGRAPHICAL sources; KINGS &; rulers; RHETORIC; HERMENEUTICS
- Publication
Literature & History, 2004, Vol 13, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
0306-1973
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.7227/LH.13.1.2