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Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

Postby Larry W. » October 12th, 2009, 2:08 am

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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

Postby agingjb » October 12th, 2009, 7:10 am

Shakespeare is usually presented with conventional "modern" spelling, which works well enough. If you look at an original text Shakespeare, then virtually every "different" word is easily seen to be roughly equivalent to its modern form:

"to dye, to sleepe/ No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end/ The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes/ That Flesh is heyre too?"

but then we are very familiar with Shakespeare, and in any case he was partly (with Tyndale) responsible for modern English.

In the case of Chaucer the language is perceptibly different. It does make some sense to translate Chaucer - going beyond respelling. Chaucer wrote, of course, before printing.

In the case of Spenser, I suppose that he is right on the border. I can certainly see a case for a "modern spelling" edition for those words that do retain, approximately, their meaning. A personal note: I find the exchange between "v"s and "u"s in my Penguin Faerie Queene much more obvious, and slightly jarring, than any other variation in spelling.

I've always been curious about the extent to which Dante, before Chaucer and long before printing, is, I assume, completely accessible to modern Italians.
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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

Postby Adam Linton » October 20th, 2009, 11:57 am

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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

Postby rumzy » October 23rd, 2009, 5:43 pm

By the way, I just bought The Faerie Queen to read for the first time. Is anyone else reading it right now? I'd love to hear your thoughts as you go along.
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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

Postby Tuke » October 27th, 2009, 1:41 am

"The 'great golden chain of Concord' has united the whole of Edmund Spenser's world.... Nothing is repressed; nothing is insubordinate. To read him is to grow in mental health." The Allegory Of Love (Faerie Queene)

2 Corinthians IV.17 The Weight of Glory
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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

Postby rumzy » October 27th, 2009, 11:17 pm

Ok, here is my first question: Spenser calls the Redcross Knight an "Elfe," but then identifies him as Saint George in Canto II. Did Elfin mean the same thing in 16th century literature as it did in 20th century literature like Lord of the Rings?

By the way, does anyone know of a good audio recording of The Faerie Queen?
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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

Postby ladysherlockian » March 8th, 2010, 11:36 am

I am writing MA about the fairies in Shakespeare's comedies. Apart from what we include in our bibliographies, we have to read some additional books and articles for the exam. They have to be related to the topic of our thesis. I was wondering about The Faerie Queene, would it be appropriate? It features fairies, but I know that Spenser deliberately made the language more archaic than the one used in his times. I guess it must be difficult to read. Would it be really feasible to read it and understand in detail before my exams in June?
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Re: Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queen

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