The Bad Liars of *Spenser in Context*, Cambridge University Press, 2017.




Usually I do not charge against academic scholars. Ignoring them is the best punishment. But this Cambridge University Press work is so shameful with Elizabethan History and truth with regard to Edmund Spenser and his greatest poem (The Faerie Queene) that I could not resist my indignation. Here it is my review of the work I published in Amazon:


These University scholars do not deal with the Spenserʼs Authorship Problem (cf. Conyers Readʼs review of the 1946 Judsonʼs The Life of Edmund Spenser), do not deal with Britomart being told the future of her dynasty, nor her love with Arthegall in Book IV, Canto 6, that will be told by the author of The Faerie Queene in Book V, Canto 7, stanzas 1-23 as having caused her pregnancy, nor Britomartʼs (Glorianaʼs, Elizabeth Iʼs) “Lordly brood,” Tudor heirs, nor talk about Tristram as that rare child whose crown has been stolen in Book VI, Canto 2. All we are offered here is a shamefully formal void. No politics in the poem. All empty words. Well, excuse me: You go and read Sex & Fun in The Faerie Queene (2019) to know what the poem is all about. At least, in this work, the Harvey-Nashe Quarrel about Spenser and Marlowe is dealt with, together with the politics of the poem. Do not buy this shamefully academic work if you want to be told what Spenser and The Faerie Queene is all about. The Royal Succession! I bought it and ordered a refund. This work cannot be more insulting to a reasoning and educated mind. The Faerie Queene is a great poem but if you deal with it as if it were pure symbolism you damage its value and its worth. Shame on you, scholars who accept to ignore the very clear words addressed to Britomart-Elizabeth I and her offspring on Book V, Canto 7, stanzas 1-23, as well as the void in the Spenserʼs biography. And to the Cambridge University Press: let me remind you that Charles Darwin studied in your institution. If you forget that, you deserve what you publish: shame. 


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