Architectural Rhetoric in Shakespeare and Spenser

by Jennifer C. Vaught

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501517937
• ISBN13: 9781501517938
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 238 Pages