Spenser's Allegory of Love: Social Vision in Books III, IV and V of "The Faerie Queene" - Hardcover

When the major characters in Books III, IV, and V of The Faerie Queene are understood as fictional personages who function psychically according to Renaissance sexual psychology and physically according to Renaissance sexual physiology, the interwoven quests can be separated out and read in their own peculiar, allegorical way, as imitations of actions.