Concerning comedy in Spenser, does anyone know the source of the comic reading of the opening of The Faerie Queene that has Redcrosse spurring and reining in his horse, Una's ass trotting quickly, and the lamb and the dwarf running fast to keep up? I remember reading it long ago, or maybe I heard it at a conference or in conversation, or maybe I made it up, though I don't think so.
Thanks,
Wayne
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What are some useful lists that you have found? Here are some that I
came across recently:
Borrowings from Ariosto:
R. E. Neil Dodge, "Spenser's Imitations from Ariosto," PMLA 12 (1897):
151*204, with a list of borrowings on pp. 199*204; idem, "Spenser's
Imitations from Ariosto--Addenda," PMLA 35 (1920): 91*92; and Allan H.
Gilbert, "Spenser's Imitations from Ariosto: Supplementary," PMLA 34
(1919): 225*32.
A list of comic passages in FQ:
Allan H. Gilbert, "Spenserian Comedy," Tennessee Studies in Literature 2
(1957): 95*104.
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