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The Faerie Queene, Book Five - Spenser, Edmund, Professor, and Stoll, Abraham (Editor)
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Book Five of The Faerie Queene is Spenser's Legend of Justice. It tells of the knight Artegall's efforts to rid Faerie Land of tyranny and injustice, aided by his sidekick Talus and the timely intervention of his betrothed, the woman warrior Britomart. As allegory, Book Five figures forth ideal concepts of justice and explores how justice may be applied in a real world complicated by social inequality, female rule, political guile, and excessive violence. At the same time, as historical allegory, it retells a number of ...

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The Faerie Queene, Book Five 2006, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis, IN

ISBN-13: 9780872208018

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The Faerie Queene, Book Five 2006, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis, IN

ISBN-13: 9780872208025

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