The Works of Edmund Spenser: The faerie queeneJohns Hopkins Press, 1934 |
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Page 332
... women of the Middle Ages . Rather , it is derived from the Amazons , popular as heroines in the Troy romances . Penthesilea , Camilla , and Marfisa are the products of a sequential literary tradition . ] The literary tradition which so ...
... women of the Middle Ages . Rather , it is derived from the Amazons , popular as heroines in the Troy romances . Penthesilea , Camilla , and Marfisa are the products of a sequential literary tradition . ] The literary tradition which so ...
Page 337
... women may be regarded in effect as answers to John Knox's celebrated broadside on the Monstrous Regiment of Women . Elyot's Defence of Good Women is in particular a defence of Queen Catherine ; and it might be supposed that Spenser in ...
... women may be regarded in effect as answers to John Knox's celebrated broadside on the Monstrous Regiment of Women . Elyot's Defence of Good Women is in particular a defence of Queen Catherine ; and it might be supposed that Spenser in ...
Page 338
... women should have the same education as men was raised in the fifth book of Plato's Republic ; and Plato asked in particular whether the art of war was one of those arts in which a woman can or cannot share . Castiglione , too , in the ...
... women should have the same education as men was raised in the fifth book of Plato's Republic ; and Plato asked in particular whether the art of war was one of those arts in which a woman can or cannot share . Castiglione , too , in the ...
Contents
COMMENTARY | 199 |
THE PLAN AND CONDUCT OF BOOK THREE | 310 |
THE ORIGIN OF BRITOMART | 330 |
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