See Spenser and the Courts of Love, 108-31, by Earle Broadus Fowler. See
also 'masque' in The Spenser Encylopedia, and for the similarities to the
masque of Cupid in Amadis of Gaule, see John J. O'Connor, Amadis de Gaule
and its Influence on Elizabethan Literature.
At 12:52 PM 2001-02-22 -0500, you wrote:
> I've been working on a project that traces the transmission of cultural
> It
>seems that someone must have already done a study of the courtly masque
>or popular pageant tradition as it informs Spenser's mask of Cupid in
> Anyone on the list familiar with such a
>piece of scholarship?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tiffany Werth
A.C.Hamilton
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