The Faerie Queene Resources

Check out this near online exhibit from the Bodleian which features rare editions of Romances, including—you guessed it—our very own Faerie Queene.

A great place to start for any aspiring Spenser-enthusiast.

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!

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.

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.

Here you'll find the transcription of a great lecture by a professor at Yale called "The Faerie Queene Among the Disciplines."

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.

Listen to a major biographer of Spenser chat about his book and about commonly held views of Spenser's life.

Check out this website for access to audio book versions of Spenser's poems.

Here's an iconic image of our author.

A beautiful woodcut image from Book 1, when Redcrosse visits the House of Holiness.