The Secret Life of Books

Season 2 Episode 1: The Faerie Queene

Dr Janina Ramirez unravels Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene to reveal how this fantasy world of elves, nymphs and questing knights was written in the midst of the brutal Tudor occupation of Ireland, and how the writer's growing disillusionment with the conflict was coded into the poem's restless vers

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

2

Episodes:

12

Actor:

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

2014

IMDb:

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