Queene Elizabethes Achademy

"Conveyed quite away" : the necessity of maintaining the boundaries of otherness in the Amoret-Busyrane episode of Edmund Spenser's the Faerie queene

Weiss, Nadine, ""Conveyed quite away" : the necessity of maintaining the boundaries of otherness in the Amoret-Busyrane episode of Edmund Spenser's the Faerie queene" (2011). Honors Theses. Paper 131.

"Watching to banish Care": Sleep and Insomnia in Book 1 of The Faerie Queene

Abstract: Used as a noun, the term refers to a short summary or outline of a longer work

Used as a noun, the term refers to a short summary or outline of a longer work. As an adjective applied to writing or literary works, abstract refers to words or phrases that name things not knowable through the five senses. Allegory: A narrative technique in which characters representing objects or abstract ideas are used to convey a message or teach a lesson. Allegory is typically used to tea...

Spenser’s Blatant Beast: The Thousand Tongues of Elizabethan Religious Polemic

This article addresses the final two books of the 1596 edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene, in which there arises a formidable adversary: the Blatant Beast. This monster, whose presence dominates the end of Book Five and a substantial portion of Book Six, represents the worst excesses of caustic and satirical rhetoric as manifest in the theological and ecclesiastical pamphlet disputes that erupt...

The Virgin Knight: Spenser’s Embodiment of Duality in Elizabethan England

Edmund Spenser’s poetry notoriously battles itself, contorting the surface of his poetical works into an ambiguous representation of how he perceived Elizabethan England in terms of theology, sexuality, nobility, and ideology. Written as what he termed “an historicall fiction[sic],” Spenser allowed his imagination to capture and epitomize the perspectives of Elizabethan society, but in a twiste...