!) Edmund Spenser Flashcards
‘So much more…
profitable and gratious is doctrine by ensample, then by rule’ (Letter to Raleigh)
‘Clowdily…
enwrapped in Allegoricall deuises’ (Letter to Raleigh)
‘Being a continued…
allegory or darke conceit’ (Letter from Raleigh)
‘Fashion a…
gentleman… in vertuous and gentle discipline’ (Letter to Raleigh)
The opening lines of Book V’s proem asked the reader to do what?
‘compare’ present with past
‘For from the…
golden age… It’s now at earst become a stonie one’ (V.proem.2)
Spenser’s claim to a ‘stonie’ age was a reference to which classical model?
The four ages of man found within Ovid’s Metamorphoses
‘The world is…
runne quite out of square’ (V.proem.1)
‘For that which…
all men then did virtue call/is now cald vice’ (V.proem.4)
How is Artegall introduced in Book IV of the Faerie Queene?
purely destructive, out of control force
Who trains Artegall in V.i?
Astrea
‘to weigh both…
right and wrong/in equall ballance’ (V.i.7)
‘in all the skill…
of deeming wrong and right’ (V.i.8)
‘Talus, made of…
yron mould/Immoueable, resistless, without end’ (V.i.12)
‘An yron flale…
did hould/with which he thresht out falsehood’ (V.i.12)
‘Ouer his Bridge…
albee he rich or poore’ (V.ii.6)
‘She is full faire…
and rich attired/with golden hands and siluer feete beside’ (V.ii.10)
‘Nor powr…
of charms which she against him wrought’ (V.ii.22)
‘throw downe these…
mountains hie/and make them leuell with the lowly plaine’ (V.ii.38)
‘all things to…
an equall to restore’ (V.ii.34)
Which of the two brothers in Canto IV had his landholdings expanded by washed up earth?
Amidas
Which of the two brothers in Canto IV had the dowry of his brothers wife washed up on his shore?
Bracidas
Which two legal theorists described a tripartite model of justice operating alongside mercy and equity?
Thomas Elyot and Christopher St German
‘Many graue…
persons that against her pled’ (V.ix.43)
‘Iustice charged her…
with breach of the lawes’ (V.x.44)
‘on the contrarie…
part/rose many aduocates for her to plead’ (V.ix.45)
‘She whose princely…
breast touched nere/With piteous ruth’ (V.ix.50)
Artegall retained ‘constant firme…
intent/For zeale of Iustice was against [Duessa] bent’ (V.ix.49)
Equity abrogated mercy to ensure the safety of ‘thine…
own people’ (V.x.3)
When did Henry Bourbon of Navarre convert to Catholicism?
1593
‘forbone/your owne…
good shield in daungerous dismay’ (V.xi.52)
How many of Belge’s sons are killed (in reference to the Spanish capture of Dutch provinces)?
12/17
In which year did the events of Philip Sidney’s Dutch campaign diverge from Spenser’s account?
1585
What did Arthur defeat in Antwerp?
‘hideous monster’, metaphor for Catholicism
‘His cruell minded…
hart/Empierced was with pittifull regard’ (V.v.13)
‘She whose princely…
breast touched nere/With piteous ruth’ (V.ix.50)
‘Disarmed quight…
of all the ornaments of knightly name’ (V.v.20)
‘The crueltie of…
womenkynd/when they have shaken off the shamefest band’ (V.v.25)
‘But by record…
of antique times… they have excelled in artes and pollicy’ (III.ii.2)
‘Vnless the heauens…
them lift to lawfull soueraintie’ (V.v.25)
‘liberty of women…
did repeale… and them restoring/to men’s subjection’ (V.vii.42)
‘Succour a distressed…
Dame/whom a strong tyrant did vniustly thrall’ (V.i.3)
‘Chose Artegall…
to right her to restore’ (V.i.4)
‘A steele cap…
he did weare… an huge Polaxe did beare’ (V.xii.14)
Which two quotes suggest Irish topography in Spenser’s Book V?
‘sea coast’ (V.xii.4), ‘craggy cliffs’ (V.ix.15)
What is Grantorto decribed as?
‘cursed felon’ (V.xii.20)
‘No laws, no penalties…
can restrain’ (A View of the Present State of Irelande)
‘Right in the flanke…
him strooke with deadly dreary’ (V.xii.20)
‘To reforme…
that ragged commonweal’ (V.xii.26)
‘called was…
away… his course of Iustice he was forst to stay’ (V.xii.27)
