Publisher's Synopsis
Each volume in this series is devoted to a single major text. It is intended for serious students in both colleges in schools, teachers of literature and the informed non-academic reader. It also aims to provide a scholarly introduction and a stimulus to critical thought and discussion.;The volumes normally begin with information on the work's literary and intellectual background and other guidance designed to help the reader to an informed understanding. This is follwed by an extended critical discussion of the work itself, and each contributor in the series has been encouraged to present in these sections his own reading of the work. Each volume also contains a historical survey of the work's critical reputation, including an account of the principal lines of approach and areas of controversy.;The present volume provides a critical discussion and background information to Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", written 1590-6.
