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Tag Archives: John Dowland
knowing the dancer from the dance
In “The Faerie Queene” Edmund Spenser tells a tale of “darke conceit” in which Prince Arthur, the future king, goes in search of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth. In each of the six books completed, Arthur representing Magnanimity- in Spenser’s system … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapman Shadow of Night, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Divine Comedy, Dr. John Dee, Frances Yates, Francesco Giorgi, George Gower, Hans Eworth, John Dee, John Dowland, Marlowe Doctor Faustus, Mary Queen of Scots, Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, William Blake, William Butler Yeats
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spenser and the poetry of opposites
Herbert Spenser’s achievement in “The Faerie Queene” was to embody the great antitheses of the Elizabethan era: both the magnanimity and grace of the age that inspired poets and sent adventurers around the world, and the frantic cruelty that degraded … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmund Spenser, Elisabethan Age, Gheeraerts the Younger, John Dowland, Robert Peake, Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Henry Unton, Sir Walter Raleigh, The faerie Queene
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