Spenser's Legal Language: Law and Poetry in Early Modern England

by Andrew Zurcher

Both English language and English political life underwent unprecedented change in the sixteenth century, creating acute linguistic and legal crises that, in Elizabeth I's later years, intersected in the pioneering poetry of Edmund Spenser. This volume explores Spenser's linguistic experimentation and his engagement with political, and particularly legal, thought and language in his major works, demonstrating by thorough lexical analysis and illustrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843841339
• ISBN13: 9781843841333
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"