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Fairy in 'The Faerie Queene': Renaissance Elf-Fashioning and Elizabethan Myth-Making. By MATTHEW WOODCOCK. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2004. ix+162 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-7546-3639-6.
The Faerie Queene remains a kind of fantasy text. As Matthew Woodcock observes in a disconcerted footnote, McNeir and Provost's Edmund Spenser: An Annotated Bibliography 1937-1972, 2nd edn (Pittsburgh, NJ: Duquesne University Press, 1975) comes with a 'rather Tolkeinesque [...] fold-out chart' as an illustrative map of fairyland. The McNeir-Provost chart is piece of fashionable paraphernalia: it looks like a prog-rock album cover (a movement in its heyday in 1975) where the House of Holiness nestles in the midst of tapering, needle-sharp mountain tops. Though Woodcock's title suggests a residual Tolkeinesque agenda, his concerns are more ambitious: Fairy in 'The Faerie Queene' attempts to relocate the...
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