AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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James I
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Mary Tudor
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Elizabeth Tudor
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Henry VII
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Detailed explanation-1: -Spenser presented the first three books of The Faerie Queene to Elizabeth I in 1589, probably sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Faerie Queene is an allegorical work in praise of Elizabeth I (represented by Gloriana – the Faerie Queene herself – and the virgin Belphoebe) and of Elizabethan notions of virtue.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Faerie Queene, one of the great long poems in the English language, written in the 16th century by Edmund Spenser.
Detailed explanation-4: -Red Cross Knight, fictional character, protagonist of Book I of The Faerie Queene (1590), an epic poem by Edmund Spenser. The Red Cross Knight represents the virtue of holiness, as well as St. George and the Anglican church.