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Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction PART I: THE 1590 FAERIE QUEENE AND THE ORIGINS OF 'A MIGHTY PERES DISPLEASURE' Lord Burghley and the Oxford Marriage The Faerie Queene Dedicatory Sonnets and the Poetics of Misreading PART II: THE COMPLAINTS AND 'THE MAN OF WHOM THE MUSE IS SCORNED' The Ruines of Time and the Rhetoric of Contestation Retrospective Fiction-making and the 'secrete' of the 1591 Virgils Gnat Mother Hubberds Tale and the Ambivalent Withdrawal from Power PART III: AFTER THE COMPLAINTS The Legacy of the Complaints and the Question of Slander Afterword Notes Index

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