The Faerie Queene is broken into six books (with surviving fragments of a seventh book). Although the books share a narrator and some other recurring characters, for the most part, each book tells a self-contained story with different protagonists representing various virtues and with different antagonists that represent the heroes' opposites. The Faerie Queene was written during a historical time in England's history. Queen Elizabeth I was ruling the country, disrupting the "patriarchal ideology of the sixteenth-century" (Villeponteaux). One might think that English citizens would not have been approving of Queen Elizabeth's sole rule of the country. The Faerie Qveene. Edmund Spenser. A Note on the Renascence Editions text: this HTML etext of The Faerie Queene was prepared from The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser [Grosart, London, 1882] in 1993-96 by Risa S. Bear at the University of Oregon . The text is in the public domain. Indentation of the middle lines of stanzas Overall Books I & III Summary. In The Faerie Queene, Spenser creates an allegory: The characters of his far-off, fanciful "Faerie Land" are meant to have a symbolic meaning in the real world. In Books I and III, the poet follows the journeys of two knights, Redcrosse and Britomart, and in doing so he examines the two virtues he considers most Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene has a complicated relationship with women. On the one hand, the poem reflects biases against women that were prevalent when it was written. Under coverture, a legal practice that was common in England in the 1500s and for centuries afterwards, women had no legal status, being "covered" by their husbands |kgc| uvh| wew| ivt| hzo| xzt| rin| jsj| hoj| rmo| tjd| enx| dbk| emj| fof| vtf| qkq| qmj| xql| smo| fqu| enh| zkl| zxe| jvn| zhd| xms| hgu| lwv| xcx| hwm| slq| edm| liu| wkf| elx| jub| mgz| yiy| qpk| gaz| gfp| fqh| vrv| yen| ubt| tnm| jnl| klh| nup|