Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Contributors draw on current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship and offer new perspectives on poetic authority, influence, and intertextuality.

Rachel Stenner is a Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex

Tamsin Badcoe is Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol

Gareth Griffith is Senior Teaching Fellow and Director of Part-Time Programmes at the University of Bristol

Introduction - Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, Gareth Griffith
1 Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde in Spenser's Amoretti and The Faerie Queene: reading historically and intertextually - Judith H. Anderson
2 'Litle herd gromes piping in the wind': The Shepheardes Calender, The House of Fame, and 'La Compleynt' - Helen Barr
3 Diverse pageants: normative arrays of sexuality - Helen Cooper
4 The source of poetry: Pernaso, Paradise, and Spenser's Chaucerian craft - Claire Eager
5 Chaucer in Ireland: archaism, etymology, and the idea of development - William Rhodes
6 Wise wights in privy places: rhyme and stanza form in Spenser and Chaucer - Richard Danson Brown
7 Romancing Geoffrey: Chaucer and romance in the manuscript tradition - Gareth Griffith
8 Cultivating Chaucerian antiquity in The Shepheardes Calender - Megan L. Cook
9 Worthy friends: Speght's Chaucer and Speght's Spenser - Elisabeth Chaghafi
10 Chaucer's 'Beast Group' and 'Mother Hubberds Tale' - Brendan O'Connell
11 Propagating authority: poetic tradition in The Parliament of Fowls and the Mutabilitie Cantos - Craig A. Berry
12 'New matter framed upon the old': Chaucer, Spenser, and Luke Shepherd's 'New Poet' - Harriet Archer
Bibliography of books and essays on Chaucer and Spenser
Index