Book VI
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Book VI is the final completed installment of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem *The Faerie Queene*, chiefly concerned with the virtue of courtesy as embodied by the knight Sir Calidore.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
poem book ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Legend of Courtesy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Edmund Spenser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralVirtue | courtesy ⓘ |
| containsAllegoryOf |
Elizabethan courtly behavior
ⓘ
moral courtesy ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Calidore
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Coridon NERFINISHED ⓘ Pastorella NERFINISHED ⓘ the Blatant Beast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsEpisodeType | pastoral interlude ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dedicatedContext | court of Elizabeth I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exploresConcept |
gentility
ⓘ
pastoral ideal ⓘ social manners ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Sir Calidore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| follows | Book V NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
allegorical poem
ⓘ
chivalric romance ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReceptionAs | key Renaissance exploration of courtesy ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeMode | third-person narration ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | learned Elizabethan readership ⓘ |
| hasTextualStatus | last fully completed book of The Faerie Queene ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Italian Renaissance epic
ⓘ
classical epic tradition ⓘ |
| intendedVirtueSequencePosition | sixth virtue in The Faerie Queene’s design ⓘ |
| isFinalCompletedInstallmentOf | The Faerie Queene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | epic poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Elizabethan literature ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter |
alexandrine (ninth line of each stanza)
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iambic pentameter (lines 1–8 of each stanza) ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Sir Calidore’s quest to subdue the Blatant Beast ⓘ |
| originalVerseForm | Spenserian stanza NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | The Faerie Queene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfLargerAllegory | moral and political vision of The Faerie Queene ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | 6 ⓘ |
| protagonist | Sir Calidore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Faerie Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme | courtesy ⓘ |
| workIn | English literature canon ⓘ |
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