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The Faerie Queene
by
Edmund Spenser
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Summary
Chapter Summaries
Summary and Analysis: Introduction and Book I, Cantos i-iv
Summary and Analysis: Book I, Cantos v-viii
Summary and Analysis: Book I, Cantos ix-xii
Summary and Analysis: Book II, Cantos i-vi
Summary and Analysis: Book II, Cantos vii-xii
Summary and Analysis: Book III, Prologue-Canto vi
Summary and Analysis: Book III, Cantos vii-xii
Summary and Analysis: Book IV, Proem-Canto vi
Summary and Analysis: Book IV, Cantos vii-xii
Summary and Analysis: Book V, Proem-Canto vi
Summary and Analysis: Book V, Cantos vii-xii
Summary and Analysis: Book VI, Proem-Canto vi
Summary and Analysis: Book VI, Cantos vii-xii
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Themes
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The Faerie Queene
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Critical Overview
Essays and Criticism
Analysis
Quotes
"All For Love"
"Be Bold, Be Bold–but Not Too Bold"
"Chaucer, Well Of English Undefiled"
"Divine Tobacco"
"Hard Is To Teach An Old Horse Amble True"
"Let Grill Be Grill And Have His Hoggish Mind"
"Roses Red And Violets Blue"
"Squire Of Dames"
"The Gentle Mind By Gentle Deeds Is Known"
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Questions and Answers: Introduction and Book I, Cantos i-iv
Questions and Answers: Book I, Cantos v-viii
Questions and Answers: Book I, Cantos ix-xii
Questions and Answers: Book II, Cantos i-vi
Questions and Answers: Book II, Cantos vii-xii
Questions and Answers: Book III, Prologue-Canto vi
Questions and Answers: Book III, Cantos vii-xii
Questions and Answers Book VI, Proem-Canto vi
Questions and Answers: Book VI, Cantos vii-xii
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Who is Archimago in The Faerie Queene and what is his significance?
Discuss the color symbolism in The Faerie Queene, book 1.
What is the significance of the House of Holiness in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene?
The personal, historical, and political allegories in Spenser's The Faerie Queene
What was Spenser's primary purpose in writing The Faerie Queene?
Can you explain stanzas 10, 11, and 12 in book 1, canto 1 of The Faerie Queene?
Comment on the pictorial quality of Spenser's "painter-poet" style in The Faerie Queene.
Analyze stanzas 17-19 from The Faerie Queene by Spenser.
What are the main features of a Spenserian Stanza in The Faerie Queen?
What do the characters in The Faerie Queene represent?
What are the Christian elements in the Red Cross Knight's dream in The Faerie Queen?
Where can I find a modern English translation or paraphrase of The Faerie Queene?
What is the meaning of this quote from "The Faerie Queene": "As when old father Nilus gins to swell With timely pride above the Aegyptian vale, His fattie waves do fertile slime outwell."?
The role and meaning of "dark conceit" in Spenser's The Faerie Queene
What makes The Faerie Queene enjoyable as both an adventure and an allegory?
What are the themes and structure of Book 1 in Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"?
Discuss: "The Red Cross Knight is an Everyman figure who ultimately achieves his knightly quest."
What is the significance of the Spenserian rhyme scheme in The Faerie Queene?
In Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, what does each character represent: Redcrosse Knight, dragon, Arthur, and Una?
What different sounds or sound effects are used in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene?
How is physical suffering represented and what is its purpose in book 1 of The Faerie Queene?
What is one interesting aspect of The Faerie Queene?
Who are the women referred to in Book One of The Faerie Queen?
Describe Redcross's adventurous journey to rescue the king and queen from a dragon in The Faerie Queene.
A. What is the meter of Edmund Spenser's poem, The Faerie Queen?
Do you believe The Faerie Queen is Spenser's best work?
In The Faerie Queene, what religious references are in Canto I, Stanzas 1-5?
What are Spenser's aims in designing The Faerie Queene, and are they achieved in Book One?
What is the interpretation of stanzas 36, 37, and 38 in The Faerie Queene?
Does Spenser aim to redeem women and break patriarchal ideals in book 3 of The Faerie Queen?
Compare and contrast the Bower of Bliss and the Garden of Adonis in The Faerie Queene.
How does Spenser's view of pagan values in The Faerie Queene compare to Christian values?
How is Book 1 of Spenser's The Faerie Queene theologically Protestant? Does it involve the Faith vs. Works theme?
What literary element is in this quote from The Faerie Queene: "The joyous day gan early to appeare, / And faire Aurora from the deawy bed/"?
How does Spenser represent a version or perversion of love in the following passage from Book III of The Faerie Queene?
What are some examples of how Spenser blends classical and Christian references in The Faerie Queen?
Discuss any patterns, literary devices, or ambiguities in one selected stanza from book 2, canto 12, stanzas 42-87 of The Faerie Queene.
What is Spenser's idea of temperance and how does it differ from Aristotelian temperance?
How successful is Spenser in creating fanciful worlds in The Faerie Queene?
What does the encounter between Duessa and Redcrosse Knight in stanzas 44-51 signify in The Faerie Queene?
How does Britomartis become a knight in Book 3 of The Faerie Queene?
What does the "Harrowing of Hell" parallel in Book 1, Canto 8, Lines 29-39 of The Faerie Queene mean?
Analyze and mark the meter in lines 31-33 of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.
How does Una save Redcrosse Knight from suicide in The Faerie Queene's Cave of Despair?
When was the 5th book of The Faerie Queene written?