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unusual facts about Spenser: For Hire


Howard Gordon

Both broke into the industry with single episodes of ABC's Spenser: For Hire.


Chasing the Bear

The recollection ends with Spenser going off to college in Boston on a football scholarship.

Conan the Hero

Nonetheless, he considers that "Conan the Hero shows Carpenter’s strengths in writing action and detail," noting that "the friendship between Conan and Juma comes across as realistic, unlike certain contrived 'interracial-buddy' movies. ... Their ambience is similar to that between the late Robert B. Parker’s Spenser and Hawk, minus the racial bantering."

Dee Hoty

In addition to stage acting, Hoty has appeared in several film and television productions including As the World Turns, Guiding Light, Models Inc., St. Elsewhere, The Equalizer, Spenser: For Hire, Ryan's Hope, Capital, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Untold West, and Harry and Walter Go to NY.

Edward Henry Corbould

He also produced designs for book illustration: in the Abbotsford edition of the Waverley Novels (Cadell, 1841–6), and in A & C Black's edition of the same works (1852–3); Spenser's Faerie Queene and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Routledge, 1853); Martin Farquhar Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy (1854); and Robert Aris Willmott's Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1857), and Merrie Days of England (1858–9).

Ethelbert White

In the same year the Golden Cockerel Press published an edition of Spenser's Wedding Songs with colour wood engravings by White.

Jordan Belfi

He also guest starred on Hawaii Five-0 as Spenser Owens in Season 1 Episode 14 "He Kane Hewa' Ole."

Lodowick Bryskett

Bryskett describes a party of friends met at his cottage near Dublin, among whom were Dr. John Long, archbishop of Armagh, Captain Christopher Carleill, Captain Thomas Norris, Captain Warham St Leger, and Mr. Edmund Spenser, ‘once your lordship's secretary.

Mother Hubberd's Tale

The poem was said to have antagonized Lord Burghley, the primary secretary of Elizabeth I, and estranged Spenser from the English court, despite his success in that arena with his previous (and most famous) work, the Faerie Queene.

Peddler

Warmonger, recorded since 1590 (Spenser's "Faerie Queene"), likely more widespread than any of the literal uses

Peter Crombie

He also made guest appearances on such television series as Spenser: For Hire, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (in the episode "Melora"), Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, Picket Fences, NYPD Blue and many others.

Prince Arthur

King Arthur also features as "Prince Arthur" in some works, as in Richard Blackmore's epic Prince Arthur, an Heroick Poem in X Books and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen

Spenser

Spenser Mountains, a range in the northern part of South Island, New Zealand

Spenser is an alternative spelling of the British surname Spencer.

The Faery Queen

The Fairy-Queen, 1692 music drama by Henry Purcell based on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream (and not on Spenser's poem)

William Henry Schofield

Some of the best known are volume II in Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, Chivalry in English Literature, published 1912 and on Chaucer, Malory, Spenser and Shakespeare, and volume V in the same series, Mythical Bards and The Life of William Wallace published 1920, about Blind Harry, Major's evidence, Master Blair and William Wallace.

William Wilkie

In 1757 Wilkie published ‘The Epigoniad,’ in nine books, based on the fourth book of the ‘Iliad,’ and written in heroic couplets in the manner of Alexander Pope's ‘Homer.’ To a second edition in 1759 he appended an ingenious apologetic ‘Dream in the manner of Spenser.’ On the appearance of this edition Hume warmly praised ‘The Epigoniad’ in a letter to the Critical Review, complaining that the journal had unduly depreciated the poem when first published.


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