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"she there as Princess rained": Spenser's Figure of Elizabeth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Mary R. Bowman
Mary R. Bowman*
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Duke University
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"The woman who has the prerogative of a goddess, who is authorized to be out of place, can best justify her authority by putting other women in their places": so concludes Louis Montrose with equal reference to Ralegh's vision of Elizabeth in the Discovery of Guiana and Spenser's reflection of her in Britomart in the Radigund episode in the fifth book of The Faerie Queene. In the case of Spenser at least that conclusion is an insightful one, suggesting that Britomart's actions can in part be explained in terms of the political and ideological constraints faced by the queen.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1990 , pp. 509 - 528
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1990

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