Book V

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Book V is a section of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem "The Faerie Queene" that focuses on the virtue of justice, chiefly embodied by the knight Artegall.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book of a poem
section of a poem
allegoricallyRepresents Elizabethan justice
Tudor statecraft
associatedWithMonarch Elizabeth I of England
author Edmund Spenser
bookNumber 5
centralKnight Artegall
containsCharacter Arthur
Grantorto
Irena
Radigund
linked to: Radegonde

Talus
containsEpisode Artegall’s defeat and subjugation by Radigund
Artegall’s encounter with the giant with the scales
Talus’s enforcement of Artegall’s judgments
liberation of Irena’s kingdom
trial of Duessa
depictsVirtueOf justice
featuresCharacter Artegall
featuresCompanionOfArtegall Talus
featuresProtagonist Artegall
firstPublication 1596
focusesOnVirtue justice
follows Book IV (The Faerie Queene)
linked to: The Faerie Queene
genre Renaissance epic
allegory
hasCriticalReceptionAs controversial for its depiction of justice and violence
hasInterpretation commentary on contemporary legal and political issues in late 16th-century England
hasTheme colonialism
equity
justice
political allegory
tyranny
language English
literaryForm allegorical epic poetry
meter Spenserian stanza
partOf The Faerie Queene
precedes Book VI (The Faerie Queene)
linked to: The Faerie Queene
publishedIn England
setIn Faerie Land
studiedInField English literature
Renaissance studies
postcolonial studies
virtuePersonifiedBy Artegall

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The Faerie Queene hasBook Book V