Table of Contents

List of plates
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Note on the texts
Letters and Papers
Appendix 1: Spenser and Ireland: A Summary Chronology
Appndix 2: Spenser's Ireland: Short Biographies
Appendix 3: Grey's Walsingham Cipher
Appendix 4: Maps of Ireland
Appendix 5: Glossary of Irish and Unusual Terms

About the Author

Andrew Zurcher is a Fellow and Newton Trust Lecturer in English at Queens' College, Cambridge. He is the author of Spenser's Legal Language: Law and Poetry in Early Modern England (Boydell and Brewer, 2007), and is an editor of the forthcoming Oxford University Press Collected Works of Edmund Spenser. Christopher Burlinson is a Fellow and College Lecturer in English at Jesus College, Cambridge. He previously held a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel
College, Cambridge.

Reviews

[an] immaculate edition of the letters ... This volume will be required reading not only for Spenser scholars but for anyone interested in early modern Ireland and the politics of Elizabethan England.
*S. Brigden, English Historical Review*

This is an exemplary work of scholarship
*David Coleman, Cahiers Elisabethains*