FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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Tudor
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Stuart
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Anjou
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Plantagenet
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Detailed explanation-1: -The poem employs frequent allusions to recent history and contemporary politics in its celebration and critique of the Tudor dynasty, such as the religious controversies and reforms under Mary and Elizabeth.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is about the coronation of Theobald.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Spenser was considered in his day to be the greatest of English poets, who had glorified England and its language by his long allegorical poem The Faerie Queene, just as Virgil had glorified Rome and the Latin tongue by his epic poem the Aeneid.