{"id":182,"date":"2017-02-26T23:40:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T04:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=182"},"modified":"2017-02-26T23:40:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T04:40:05","slug":"reflections-on-the-faerie-queene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/epic-romance\/reflections-on-the-faerie-queene\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on The Faerie Queene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now at the conclusion of our readings of <em>The Faerie Queene<\/em>, I have been left thinking of all the comparisons that can be drawn between Spenser&#8217;s story and more contemporary tales. Most notably in my mind (probably because I have watched it in the region of 50 times) is the scene in Monty Python&#8217;s The Holy Grail in which Sir Gallahad the Chaste wanders up to Castle Anthrax, where he is promptly met by a castle full of rather sexually frustrated maidens. The scene as a whole mirrors very closely the Castle Joyous scene in which Britomart&#8217;s chastity is tested by the castle&#8217;s maiden. There are countless other examples, but this one stood out to me particularly, and speaks more generally to the true epic nature of the text &#8211; a text so epic that, even now, it is still being drawn from for inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now at the conclusion of our readings of The Faerie Queene, I have been left thinking of all the comparisons that can be drawn between Spenser&#8217;s story and more contemporary tales. Most notably in my mind (probably because I have watched it in the region of 50 times) is the scene in Monty Python&#8217;s The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}