(FAIR EE QUEEN)
BY
ADM UND SPENSER
CHARACTERS LIST
1)FAIR EE QUEEN GLORIANA
The queen who gives order to red cross to kill the dragon
2)RED CROSS
the bold and brave man who kills the dragon
3) ANA
the future wife of red cross
4) ARCHIMANGO
An old hermit .who feels happy to harm others.
5) Two spirits
Always help the ARCHIMANGO in his mission.
6) KNIGHT
Fights with red cross, red cross defeated him with the help of his red cross in his spear
7) DRAGON
harms the people of the town
SHORT Summary
Fairee queen gives order to the red cross to kill the dragon which harms the people of the town.
Red cross fulfills his mission along with his future wife ANA.
Time has advanced too much, and they need a place to spend the night.
ARCHIMANGO the old hermit allows them to spend the night in his inn.
They agreed upon and while they were sleeping, ARCHIMANGO plays a game with them.
ARCHIMANGO uses his spirits to fulfill his aim.
He argues the felling of lust and love in the heart of red cross with the help of spirits against his future wife.
When he sees that this trick has no effect on him, he uses another trick.
He sets a place to meet the Ana with a stranger and presented to be a love affair among them.
When red cross see, so he left the una and returns alone.
ARCHIMANGO is feeling good and enjoying with una.
Red cross returns and tells all the story to GLORIANA.
BACKGROUND HISTORY
The Fairee queen appreciates him and gives him the title of brave man.
The Faerie Queene (1590) is an epic poem by Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599), which follows the adventures of a number of medieval knights. The poem, written in a deliberately archaic style, draws on history and myth, particularly the legends of Arthur. Each book follows the adventures of a knight who represents a particular virtue (holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship, justice and courtesy) and who has that quality in him or herself tested by the plot. The Faerie Queene is an allegorical work in praise of Elizabeth I (represented by Gloriana – the Faerie Queene herself – and the virgin Belphoebe) and of Elizabethan notions of virtue. The poem employs frequent allusions to recent history and contemporary politics in its celebration and critique of the Tudor dynasty, such as the religious controversies and reforms under Mary and Elizabeth. Spenser wrote that one of his intentions was that the reading of this work should ‘fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle disciple’. Spenser invented a new verse form for his epic that is now known as the Spenserian stanza.
The poem is unfinished: Spenser’s original plan was for 12 books, but we have just seven, the last being incomplete. The first three books were published in 1590 and the second three in 1596.
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The Faerie Queene as a source for King Lear
In Book 2, the knight Guyon reads an old history of faerie land, which gives Spenser the opportunity to recount a chronicle of British rulers. In Canto 10, Stanzas 27–32 (pp. 332–34), Spenser tells the story of Leyr. The story is similar to that found in Holinshed and Geoffrey of Monmouth. However, in Spenser’s version, Leyr is looking to retire in his old age. After the love test and division of the realm, he weds Gonorill to the king of Scotland, and Regan to the king of Cambria (Wales). Cordeill/Cordelia is sent dowerless to Aganip of Celtica (France). In an ending very similar to Holinshed’s, Cordeill restores Leyr to the crown and later inherits it only to be overthrown by her nephews. In Spenser’s version, Cordeill hangs rather than stabs or slays herself (as in previous versions), which may be the source for the method of Cordelia’s murder in Shakespeare’s play.
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