Fairy in The faerie queene : Renaissance elf-fashioning and Elizabethan myth-making
Woodcock examines the literary and political background to Spenser's use of the fairy as a panegyric device to address the question of why, in particular, Spenser should use such symbolism in the celebration and glorification of Queen Elizabeth I.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 162 p. ; 24 cm.
9780754634393, 0754634396
1169803029
Reading fairies in early modern texts; Sources and contexts; Spenserian fairy stories; Setting forth Fairyland and fairy knights; The Fairy Queen; The fairy chronicle.