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In this article, Spenser\u2019s Faerie Queene<\/em> and Laneham\u2019s description of Elizabeth\u2019s visit to Kenilworth are both understood as mediums. Hence, behind the Laneham\u2019s description there is another text \u2014 the text of the ritual itself, which encompassed Leicester\u2019s hopes and ambitions, his self-representation and his attempts to construct an image of the queen. In fact, we benefit from the indirect view of the ritual given through the lens of Laneham\u2019s description; as Laneham, observing this communication from the outside, sometimes describes the reaction of Elizabeth.<\/p>\n The Faerie Queene<\/em> was written by a man who belonged to the same social group, maybe even to the same circle as the author of the description \u2014 in his youth Spenser together with Laneham were Leicester\u2019s clients. Furthermore, the Faerie Queene<\/em> may be regarded as another example of the application of the symbolic language of the Elizabethan court. The analysis shows that the poem and the entertainments do not simply imitate single formal elements of one another. On the contrary, the meaning of formally similar images differs drastically in these two texts.<\/p>\n The comparison of the symbolic language used in the poem with that used for the entertainments leads to the conclusion that visual similarity may be connected with completely different ideas and themes. In case of the Faerie Queene<\/em>, they are related to visual images conceived by words of the poet in a reader\u2019s mind. In the end, it becomes clear that the Arthurian legend, images conveying national sentiments and antique imagery are the most important sources from which Spenser and the organizers of the festival drew their material.<\/p>\n Key words:<\/em> Kenilworth; Edmund Spenser; Robert Laneham; Early Modern England; Political Representation.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1897,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1852","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52888,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1852\/revisions\/52888"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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