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!) Edmund Spenser Flashcards

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‘So much more…

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profitable and gratious is doctrine by ensample, then by rule’ (Letter to Raleigh)

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‘Clowdily…

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enwrapped in Allegoricall deuises’ (Letter to Raleigh)

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‘Being a continued…

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allegory or darke conceit’ (Letter from Raleigh)

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‘Fashion a…

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gentleman… in vertuous and gentle discipline’ (Letter to Raleigh)

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The opening lines of Book V’s proem asked the reader to do what?

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‘compare’ present with past

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‘For from the…

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golden age… It’s now at earst become a stonie one’ (V.proem.2)

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Spenser’s claim to a ‘stonie’ age was a reference to which classical model?

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The four ages of man found within Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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‘The world is…

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runne quite out of square’ (V.proem.1)

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‘For that which…

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all men then did virtue call/is now cald vice’ (V.proem.4)

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How is Artegall introduced in Book IV of the Faerie Queene?

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purely destructive, out of control force

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Who trains Artegall in V.i?

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Astrea

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‘to weigh both…

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right and wrong/in equall ballance’ (V.i.7)

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‘in all the skill…

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of deeming wrong and right’ (V.i.8)

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‘Talus, made of…

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yron mould/Immoueable, resistless, without end’ (V.i.12)

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‘An yron flale…

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did hould/with which he thresht out falsehood’ (V.i.12)

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‘Ouer his Bridge…

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albee he rich or poore’ (V.ii.6)

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‘She is full faire…

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and rich attired/with golden hands and siluer feete beside’ (V.ii.10)

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‘Nor powr…

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of charms which she against him wrought’ (V.ii.22)

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‘throw downe these…

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mountains hie/and make them leuell with the lowly plaine’ (V.ii.38)

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‘all things to…

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an equall to restore’ (V.ii.34)

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Which of the two brothers in Canto IV had his landholdings expanded by washed up earth?

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Amidas

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Which of the two brothers in Canto IV had the dowry of his brothers wife washed up on his shore?

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Bracidas

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Which two legal theorists described a tripartite model of justice operating alongside mercy and equity?

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Thomas Elyot and Christopher St German

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‘Many graue…

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persons that against her pled’ (V.ix.43)

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‘Iustice charged her…

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with breach of the lawes’ (V.x.44)

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‘on the contrarie…

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part/rose many aduocates for her to plead’ (V.ix.45)

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‘She whose princely…

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breast touched nere/With piteous ruth’ (V.ix.50)

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Artegall retained ‘constant firme…

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intent/For zeale of Iustice was against [Duessa] bent’ (V.ix.49)

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Equity abrogated mercy to ensure the safety of ‘thine…

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own people’ (V.x.3)

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When did Henry Bourbon of Navarre convert to Catholicism?

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1593

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‘forbone/your owne…

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good shield in daungerous dismay’ (V.xi.52)

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How many of Belge’s sons are killed (in reference to the Spanish capture of Dutch provinces)?

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12/17

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In which year did the events of Philip Sidney’s Dutch campaign diverge from Spenser’s account?

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1585

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What did Arthur defeat in Antwerp?

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‘hideous monster’, metaphor for Catholicism

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‘His cruell minded…

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hart/Empierced was with pittifull regard’ (V.v.13)

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‘She whose princely…

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breast touched nere/With piteous ruth’ (V.ix.50)

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‘Disarmed quight…

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of all the ornaments of knightly name’ (V.v.20)

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‘The crueltie of…

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womenkynd/when they have shaken off the shamefest band’ (V.v.25)

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‘But by record…

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of antique times… they have excelled in artes and pollicy’ (III.ii.2)

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‘Vnless the heauens…

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them lift to lawfull soueraintie’ (V.v.25)

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‘liberty of women…

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did repeale… and them restoring/to men’s subjection’ (V.vii.42)

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‘Succour a distressed…

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Dame/whom a strong tyrant did vniustly thrall’ (V.i.3)

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‘Chose Artegall…

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to right her to restore’ (V.i.4)

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‘A steele cap…

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he did weare… an huge Polaxe did beare’ (V.xii.14)

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Which two quotes suggest Irish topography in Spenser’s Book V?

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‘sea coast’ (V.xii.4), ‘craggy cliffs’ (V.ix.15)

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What is Grantorto decribed as?

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‘cursed felon’ (V.xii.20)

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‘No laws, no penalties…

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can restrain’ (A View of the Present State of Irelande)

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‘Right in the flanke…

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him strooke with deadly dreary’ (V.xii.20)

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‘To reforme…

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that ragged commonweal’ (V.xii.26)

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‘called was…

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away… his course of Iustice he was forst to stay’ (V.xii.27)

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