The Faerie Queene Resources
Websites
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Check out this near online exhibit from the Bodleian which features rare editions of Romances, including—you guessed it—our very own Faerie Queene.
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A great place to start for any aspiring Spenser-enthusiast.
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If you want to learn more about Spenser's historical context, this list of websites and resources from Renaissance Britain is not to be missed!
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Book 1 of The Faerie Queene is the most important and well read of the six books: check it out on the always-awesome Project Gutenberg.
Movies or TV Productions
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While there are exactly zero film or television versions of the Faerie Queene, there's tons of good stuff about Queen Elizabeth, who is such a central figure to the poem. This movie, Elizabeth, while it takes a lot of historical liberties, is one fun place to start.
Articles and Interviews
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Here you'll find the transcription of a great lecture by a professor at Yale called "The Faerie Queene Among the Disciplines."
Video
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While it's not actually a movie depicting the poem itself (no one has tried this…yet), it is a lovely slideshow of nineteenth-century illustrations of The Faerie Queene.
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Listen to a major biographer of Spenser chat about his book and about commonly held views of Spenser's life.
Audio
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Check out this website for access to audio book versions of Spenser's poems.
Images
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Here's an iconic image of our author.
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A beautiful woodcut image from Book 1, when Redcrosse visits the House of Holiness.