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The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Genres of The Faerie Queene Epic
Influenced by Virgilian tradition Mirrors contemporary European poets: Ariosto, Tasso, Camoens Influenced:
John Milton, Paradise LostWilliam Blake, JerusalemAlfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King
Chivalric Romance Allegory
Religious Historical
Courtesy Book The moral formation of the ideal Protestant GentlemanPropaganda
Protestant vs. Roman Catholic Fantasy
Influenced J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Games of Illusion and Delusion – watch disguises!
The Spenserian Stanza
The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form.
Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'Alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter.
The rhyme scheme of these lines is "ababbcbcc."
Booke IThe Legende of the Knight
of the Red Crosse, or of Holinesse
Sir Guyon and the Palmer by Thomas
Danby
Booke II The Legend of Sir Guyon,
or of Temperance
Britomart Unarmingby
Frederick Richard Pickersgill
Booke III The Legend
of Britomartis,
of of Chastitie
Cambel and Telamond
(Triamond) battle
Sir Satyrane
Booke IV The
Legend of
Cambel and
Telamond, of
Friendship
Booke V The Legend of Artegall, or of Justice
Sir Artegall slaying the monster
Chrysaor
Sir Calidore overthrows the Blatant Beast
byFrank C. Papé
Booke VI The Legend
of St. Calidore, or of Courtesie
Prince Arthur and the Faerie
Queenby
Johann Heinrich Füseli
Booke VII: Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
Booke IThe Legende of the Knight of the Red
Crosse, or of Holinesse
CLEOPOLISCourt of theFaerie QueeneGloriana
UnaTruthDwarfPrudence
Red CrosseKnightHoliness(St. George)
ErrorHermitArchimagoHypocrisy
Sans FoyWithout FaithFidessa/Duessa
AbessaSuperstitionCorcecaBlindness
KirkrapineChurchthief
Archimagodisguised as RC
Fradubio
Sans LoyWithout Loyalty
HOUSE OF PRIDELucifera & 7 Deadly Sins
Sans JoyWithoutJoy
Kingdom ofDarknessNight
HADES: Aesculapius
Sir Satyrane
Orgoglio PrideDUNGEON
Dwarf
Prince Arthur
Cave of Despaire
House of HopeDame Caelia Heavenly
Fidelia FaithSperanza HopeCharissa Charity
Holy Hospitall
HermitageContemplation
Fidelia and Speranza byBenjamin West
Vision of the “New Jerusalem”
St. Georgeof England
Unaand the
Red Cross
Knight by
George Frederic Watts
Return to Una’s Kingdom of Eden
The Slaying of the Dragon
3 Day Battle
After 1st day: revivedby Well of Life
After 2nd day: revivedby Tree of Life
3rd day: slays the Dragon with thrustinto his fiery mouth
Betrothal of Una and RedCrosse – threatened by
Archimago
Return to the Faery Court
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