@'She there as Princess rained@': Spenser's Figure of Elizabeth

Mary R. Bowman

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Renaissance Literature and Culture Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Early Modern Women Writers

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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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