Faerie Land

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Faerie Land is the richly allegorical, fantastical realm that serves as the primary setting of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem *The Faerie Queene*.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fantasy world
fictional realm
literary setting
appearsIn The Faerie Queene NERFINISHED
associatedWithCharacter Arthur NERFINISHED
Britomart NERFINISHED
Gloriana NERFINISHED
Guyon NERFINISHED
Redcrosse Knight NERFINISHED
Una NERFINISHED
associatedWithLanguage Early Modern English NERFINISHED
associatedWithLiteraryForm epic poem
associatedWithPeriod English Renaissance NERFINISHED
createdBy Edmund Spenser NERFINISHED
depictedIn late 16th-century English literature
describedAs fantastical realm
richly allegorical
firstPublishedInWorkYear 1590
furtherDevelopedInWorkYear 1596
governedBy Gloriana NERFINISHED
hasFunctionInWork allegorical landscape
representation of an idealized realm
stage for moral quests
hasGenre allegory
fantasy
hasNotableLocation Bower of Bliss NERFINISHED
Castle of Alma NERFINISHED
Garden of Adonis NERFINISHED
House of Holiness NERFINISHED
House of Pride NERFINISHED
Lucifera’s court NERFINISHED
Temple of Isis NERFINISHED
hasTheme chivalric virtue
courtly politics
spiritual pilgrimage
temptation and trial
influencedBy Arthurian legend NERFINISHED
classical epic tradition
medieval romance tradition
partOf the fictional universe of The Faerie Queene
primarySettingOf The Faerie Queene NERFINISHED
relatedTo Elizabethan allegory
Protestant moral ideology
Tudor political symbolism
symbolizes moral virtues
political ideas
religious themes

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The Faerie Queene setIn Faerie Land