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“The notion that for every physical object, metaphysical concept, and ethical principle there is an ideal abstract form that in fact is more “real” than its manifestations in the actual or material world”. (Book XLIX)

9/6/24

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“Each person decides how to pass the leisure hours, so long as he does not fritter them away in sloth and roistering but pursues some interest to which he is inclined” (More pg. 40)

9/10/24

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“Now, as to determining what punishment might be better… when men were convicted of great crimes they were condemned to a lifetime of working, shackled, in stone quarries or mines” (More pg. 28)

9/6/24

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“Utopians, are kept at work and in chains, but Utopians treat their own countrymen more harshly. These they regard as more deserving of exemplary punishment because despite their good education in virtuous living they could not restrain themselves from crime” (More pg. 54).

9/10/24

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“I do not think that all the good in the world can equal a man’s life in value” (More pg. 27).

9/6/24

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“A king, however much he might want to, can do nothing wrong, for all that men possess is his—they themselves are his—and a man’s own is only what the king’s generosity dose not take away” (More pg. 32)

9/10/24

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“Plato, believes that states will be happy only if philosophers are kings or kings turn to philosophy, what a faint hope there will be of happiness if philosophers will not share their advice with kings” (More pg. 31)

9/6/24

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“The spirits tell me they can dry the sea, / And fetch the treasure of all foreign wrecks, / Ay, all the wealth that are forefathers hid / Within the heavy entrails of the earth” (Marlowe pg. 597 lines 145-148).

9/12/24

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“Philosophy is odious and obscure; / Both law and physic are for petty wits; / Divinity is the basest of the three, / Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible and vile; / ‘Tis magic, magic, that hath ravished me” (Marlowe pg. 596 lines 107-111).

9/12/24

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“Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere / Or the ocean to overwhelm the world” (Marlow pg. 599 lines 38-39).

9/16/24

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“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib’d / In one self place, but where we are is hell, / And where hell is there must we ever be” (Marlowe pg. 604 lines 117-120).

9/16/24

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“Ah my God, I would weep, but the devil draws my tears. Gush forth blood instead of tears, yea life and soul! Oh, he stays my tongue; I would lift up my hands, but see, they hold them, they hold them!” (Marlowe pg. 619 lines 30-34).

9/16/24

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"All places shall be hell that is not heaven" (Marlowe pg. 604 line 123).

9/19/24

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"Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" (Marlowe pg. 618 lines 92-93).

9/19/24

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"O, thou art fairer than the evening air / Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars" (Marlowe pg. 619 lines 105-106)

9/19/24

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“Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever” (Wyatt pg. 114 line 1).

9/23/24

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“Chasity and Beauty which were deadly foes” (Daniel pg. 134 line 9)

9/26/24

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“That they shall grieve they live not in these times, / To have seen thee, their sex’s only glory: / So shalt thou fly above the vulgar throng, / Still to survive in my immortal song” (Drayton pg. 134 lines 11-14)

9/26/24

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”Stella looked on, and from her heav’nly face / Sent forth the beams, which made so fair my race” (Sidney pg. 335 lines 13-14).

10/1/24

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“Let him but learn of love to read in thee, / Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show” (Sidney pg. 337 lines 3-4).

10/1/24

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“When I do count the clock that tells the time, / And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; / When I behold the violet past prime, / And sable curls all silvered o’er with white: / When lofty trees I see barren of leaves” (Shakespeare pg. 676 lines 1-5)

10/3/24

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”Then of thy beauty do I question make, / That thou among the wastes of time must go” (Shakespeare pg. 677 lines 9-10).

10/3/24

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”Where wasteful time debateth with decay / To change your day of youth to sullied night: and all in war with time for love of you” (Shakespeare pg. 677 lines 11-12).

10/3/24

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”Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate”(Shakespeare pg. 677 lines 1-2)

10/3/24

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”When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: / So long as men can breath or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and gives life to thee” (Shakespeare pg. 677 lines 12-14).

10/3/24

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The topic of time has come up frequently in our readings. I think that people have always been fascinated with he concept of time, and how it never stops it just keeps on flowing. Like an ocean of swirling lines of time intercrossing, diverging, and connecting.

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”Even in the eyes of all posterity / That wear this world out to the ending doom. / So till the judgment that yourself arise, / You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes” (Shakespeare pg, 679-680 lines 12-14).

10/10/24

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”How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, / Whose action is no stronger than a flower?” (Shakespeare pg. 680 lines 3-4).

“When rocks impregnable are not so stout, / Nor gates of steel so string, but time decays?” (Shakespeare pg. 680 lines 7-8).

10/10/24

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”That in black ink my love may still shine bright.” (Shakespeare pg. 680 line 14).

10/10/24

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Circulation, Gender, and Subjectivity in Mary Wroth’s Sonnets- by Jeff Masten

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Circulation, Gender, and Subjectivity in Mary Wroth’s Sonnets- by Jeff Masten

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“To read for evidence of an essential female psychology is to read gender at the expense of history—rather than gender through/ across history” (Masten pg. 80).

10/10/24

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”Since brass, nor stone, nor earths nor boundless sea, / But sad mortality o’ersways their power” (Shakespeare pg. 680 lines 1-2).

10/10/24

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”Therefore I lie with her, and she with me, / And in our faults by lies we flattered by” (Shakespeare pg. 685 lines 13-14).

10/10/24

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Stanza 8

“Much can they prayse the trees so straight and hy, / The sayling Pine, the Ceder proud and tall, / The vine-prop Elme, the Poplar never dry, / The builder Oake, sole king Forrest’s all, / The Aspine good for staves, the Cypresses funeral.” (Spencer lines 68-72)

10/29/24

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Stanza 9

“The willow worne of forlorne Paramours, / The Eugh obedient to the benders will, /The Birch for shaftes, the Sallow for the mill, / The Mirrhe sweete bleeding in the bitter wound, / The warlike Beech, the Ash for nothing ill, / The fruitfull Olive, and the Platane round, / The carver Holme, the Maple seldom inward sound.” (Spencer pg. 196 lines 75-80)

10/29/24

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Stanza 10

“They cannot find the path, which first was shown, / But wander too and fro in waves unknown, / Furthest from end then, when they nearest weenie, / That makes them doubt, their wits be not their own: / So many paths, so many turnings seen, / That which of them to take, in diverse doubt they been.” (Spencer pg. 196 lines 85-90)

10/29/24

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Stanza 8

“Prickèd with wrath and fiery fierce disdaine, / That him to follow was but fruitless paine; / Yet she her weary limbes would never rest, / But every hill and dale, each wood and plaine, / Did search, sore grievèd in her gentle Brest, / He so urgently left her, whom she lovèd best.” (Spencer pg. 203-4 lines 67-72)

10/29/24

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Stanza 24

“A virgin widow, whose deepe wounded mind / With love, long time did languish as the stricken hind” (Spencer pg. 206 lines 215-216)

10/29/24

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Stanza 4

“From her faire head her fillet she undight, / And laid her stole aside. Her angles face / As the great eye of heaven shyned bright, / And made a sunshine in the shadie place; / Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.” (Spencer pg. 209 lines 33-36)

10/31/24

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Stanza 5

“But full great pittie, that so faire a mound / Did on so weake foundation ever sit: / For on a sandie hill, that still did flit, / And fall away, it mounted was full hie, / That every breath of heaven shakèd it: / And all the hinder parts, that few could spie, / Were ruinous and old, nut painted cunningly” (SPencer pg. 215 lines 41-45)

10/31/24

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Stanza 8

“And a rich throne, as bright as sunny day, / On which there sate most brave embellished / With royall robe and gorgeous array, / A Mayden Queen, that shone as Titans ray, / In glistring gold, and peerelesse pretious stone: / Yet her bright blazing beautie did assay / To dim the rightness of her glorious throne, / As envying her selfe, that too exceeding shone.” (Spencer pg. 215 lines 67-72)

10/31/24

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Stanza 9

“And rapt with whirling wheeles, inflames the skyen, / With fire not made to burne, but fairely for to shyne.” (Spencer pg. 216 lines 80-81)

10/31/24

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Stanza 29

“Whose greedy lust did lacke in greatest store, / Whose need had end, but no end covetise, / Whose wealth was want, whose plants made him pore, / Who had enough, yet wishèd ever more; / A vile disease, and eke in foote and hand / A grievous gout tormented him full sore, / That well he could not touch, nor go, nor stand.” (Spencer pg. 218 lines 254-260)

10/31/24

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All the struggles of the men are related to women

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This is from the House of Pride it is built on an unstable deceitful foundation. It is to pretty to shiny.

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Stanza 29

"A goodly knight, faire marching by the way / Together with his Squire, arayed meet: / His glitterand armor shined farre away, / Like glauncing light of Phoebus brightest ray; / From to to toe no place appeared bare, / Athwart his Brest a bauldrick brave he ware, / That shynd, like twinkling stars, with stons most pretious rare." (Spencer pg. 239 lines 253-261)

11/14/24

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“For ere you heare it, I must tellmy newes, it is not common,But, Ile unfold a trueth betwixta Devill and a woman.”

11/18/24

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The beautie of the fairest Flowre,so pleasing to the eye,Doth fade and wither in an houre,and no man sets thereby:So deales my fairest faire with me,her joyes in Love are gone;Wherefore the wanton world shall see,Ile choose to lye alone.

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A good Wife, or none.
To a pleasant new Tune

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A good Wife, or none.
To a pleasant new Tune

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“The beautie of the fairest Flowre,so pleasing to the eye,Doth fade and wither in an houre,and no man sets thereby:So deales my fairest faire with me,her joyes in Love are gone;Wherefore the wanton world shall see, Ile choose to lye alone.“

11/18/24

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Women

Silent, Obedient, Private, Chaste

Wroth

-Writing, “Public”

-“Oyster” medieval slur of vagina

-Open vagina—> Writing

-Not Chaste

11/19/24

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”Thus hast thou made thyself a lying wonder…/ Work o th’ Works leave idle books alone / For wise and worthier women have writ none.” (Denny lines 23, 25-26)

11/19/24

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”These slanderous flying flames raised from the pot / You know are false and raging makes you hot… / When these few lines not thousands writ at least / Mainly thus prove your self the drunken beast” (Wroth lines 13-14 17-18)

11/19/24

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”A Thread but of your own all words worse spun / By which you lively see in your glass / How hard it is for you to lie and pass / Thus you have made yourself a lying wonder / Fools and their pastimes should not part asunde” (Wroth lines 20-24)

11/19/24

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Marry Wroth re-wrote Denny’s poem but so much better. She is able to respond in a witty way. She shows agency because she re-wrote it, it reflects her skill. She shows that Denny is not a good writer. She almost responds to his poem word for word.

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Marry Wroth re-wrote Denny’s poem but so much better. She is able to respond in a witty way. She shows agency because she re-wrote it, it reflects her skill. She shows that Denny is not a good writer. She almost responds to his poem word for word.

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Stanza 32

"On top of greene Selinis all alone, / With blossoms brave bedecked daintily; / Whose tender locks do tremble every one / At every little breath that under heaven is blowne." (Spencer lines 285-288 pg. 239)

12/2/24

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To the Troops at Tilbury- Queen Elizabeth 

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To the Troops at Tilbury- Queen Elizabeth 

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“And therefore I am come amongst you as you see at this time not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved in the midst and heat of battle to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for God and for my kingdom and for my people my honor and my blood even in the dust” (Queen Elizabeth 411)

12/3/24

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To the Troops at Tilbury- Queen Elizabeth 

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To the Troops at Tilbury- Queen Elizabeth 

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“I know I have the body of a week and feeble woman, but i have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England” (Queen Elizabeth 411)

12/3/24

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To the Troops at Tilbury- Queen Elizabeth 

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To the Troops at Tilbury- Queen Elizabeth 

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“I myself will take up arms; I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarded of every one of your virtues in the field” (Queen Elizabeth 411)

12/3/24

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Ester Sowernam- The Arraignment of Women (1617)

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Ester Sowernam- The Arraignment of Women (1617)

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Chapter 8

“Purge an infected heart, and turn away a lascivious eye…Bad minds are discovered by bad thoughts and hearts” (Sowernam 712)

12/3/24

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Ester Sowernam- The Arraignment of Women (1617)

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Ester Sowernam- The Arraignment of Women (1617)

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“Not out of idleness; forbear to charge women with faults which come from the contagion of masculine serpents” (Sowernam 714)

12/3/24

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A Married State

“A virgin state is crowned with much content; / It’s always happy as it’s innocent” (Philips 947 lines 5-6)

12/3/24

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A Married State

“Suppress wild nature if she dare rebel. / There’s no such thing as leading apes in hell.” (Philips 948 lines 15-16)

12/3/24

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Stanza 10

“And in her self-lov’d semblance tooke delight; / For she was wondrous faire, as any living wight.” (Spencer pg. 216 lines 89-90)

10/31/24

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”Oft turning others’ leaves, to see if thence would flow some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain” (Sidney pg. 332 lines 7-8).

10/1/24

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Stanza 41

“Whom great griefe made forget the raines to hold / Of reason rule, to see this recreant (faint-hearted), / No knight, but treachour full of false despight / And shameful treason, who through guile hath slayn / The prowest Knight, that ever field did fight.” (Spencer pg. 220 lines 363-367).

10/31/24

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Stanza 37

“For he is one the truest knight alive, / Though conquered now he lie on lowly land, / And whilest him fortune favored, faire did thrive, / In bloudie field: therefore of life him not deprive.” (Spencer pg. 213 lines 330-333)

10/31/24

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Stanza 44

“To be partaker of her wandering woe, / More mild in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe” (Spencer pg. 214 lines 395-396)

10/31/24

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The Blazing World

“I am not Covetous, but as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; which is the cause, That though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second; yet, I will endeavour to be, Margaret the First: and, though I have neither Power, Time nor Occasion, to be a great Conqueror, like Alexander, or Cesar; yet, rather than not be Mistress of a World, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none, I have made One of my own. And thus, believing, or, at least, hoping, that no Creature can, or will, Envy me for this World of mine, I remain” (Cavendish)

12/3/24

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Stanza 24

“Up then, up dreary Dame, of darknesse Queene, / Go gather up the reliques of thy race, / Or else goe them avenge, and let be seene, / That dreaded Night in brightest day hath place, / And can the children of faire light deface.” (Spencer pg. 224 lines 208-212)

10/31/24

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Evil Women in the Faerie Queene- Shelia Cavanagh

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Evil Women in the Faerie Queene- Shelia Cavanagh

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”Females associated with nightmare pose some of the greatest threats to vertue” (Cavanagh pg. 316).

11/12/24

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A good Wife, or none.To a pleasant new Tune

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A good Wife, or none.To a pleasant new Tune

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“The Glow-worm in the dark gives light,unto the view of many;The Moone she shewes her selfe by night,and yeelds her selfe to any:But if my Love should seeme to be,of every one so knowne:She never more should shine on me, I had rather lie alone.”

11/18/24

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Evil Women in the Faerie Queene- Shelia Cavanagh

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Evil Women in the Faerie Queene- Shelia Cavanagh

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“The emphasis upon nightmares which encompasses these malevolent females parallels a fascination with female spirits of the night which was widely documented during this era” (Cavanagh pg. 320)

11/12/24

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Evil Women in the Faerie Queene- Shelia Cavanagh

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Evil Women in the Faerie Queene- Shelia Cavanagh

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“At the same time, fashioning dangerous females into nightmares limits the scope of their power. The insubstantiality of ordinary nightmare implies that these female enemies can ultimately be melted like the Snowy Florimell, be vanquished by chivalric means, or be overcome by the return of virtuous thoughts and desires.” (Cavanagh pg. 318)

11/12/24

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Stanza 46

"That noble order hight of Maidenhed, / Forthwith to court of Gloriane I sped, / Of Gloriane great Queene of glory bright, / Whose kingdomes seat Cleopolis is red" (Spencer pg. 241 lines 409-412)

11/14/24

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Here on this Figure Cast a Glance.
But so as if it were by Chance,
Your eyes not fixt, they must not Stay,
Since this like Shadowes to the Day
It only represent's; for Still,
Her Beauty's found beyond the Skill
Of the best Paynter, to Imbrace
These lovely Lines within her face.
View her Soul's Picture, Judgment, witt,
Then read those Lines which Shee hath writt,
By Phancy's Pencill drawne alone
Which Peces but Shee, can justly owne.

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”That it was impossible, unless they did spoil or lessen the light of the World: but, said they, if it please your Majesty, we can demolish one of the numerous Stars of the Sky, which the World will never miss.” (Cavendish)

12/4/24

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“Wheresoever Learning is, there is most commonly also Controversies and quarreling; for there by always some that will know more, and be wiser than others: some think their Arguments come nearer to Truth and are more rational then others; some are so wedded to their own opinions, that they’l never yield to Reason” (Cavendish).

12/5/24