Edmund Spenser (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Edmund Spenser was one of three children born to John and Elizabeth Spenser. He wrote in Prothalamion that London was his birthplace. With his brother he attended the Merchant Taylors’ School under the famous progressive educator Richard Mulcaster. Under Mulcaster the principal studies were Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, English, and music; the students also practiced acting, which the master believed to be of considerable educational value.
When Spenser was still in his teens, his first published poetry appeared in A Theatre wherein be represented . . . the miseries...
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