The Actaeon Myth and Allegorical Reading in Spenser's "Two Cantos of Mutabilitie"
Previous scholarship has argued that the figure of Faunus in Spenser's "Two Cantos of Mutabilitie" is a Satan figure or an analogue of Mutability herself. The mythographical interpretations of Ovidian stories in the Ovide Moralise, however, indicate the likelihood that Spenser also in...
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1995
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1995, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 561-575 |
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| Summary: | Previous scholarship has argued that the figure of Faunus in Spenser's "Two Cantos of Mutabilitie" is a Satan figure or an analogue of Mutability herself. The mythographical interpretations of Ovidian stories in the Ovide Moralise, however, indicate the likelihood that Spenser also intended Faunus to be read as a Christ figure. The addition of this valence to Faunus helps to explain why Molanna is tempted with cherries as well as apples, for cherries are the fruit of paradise: at the moment of the Fall, the Redemption was present also. This evidence suggests that the debat of the "Two Cantos" has to do with the warrants for faith: will Christians be redeemed because they will weight rightly and choose correctly, or will a wise Nature take care of them, despite their waywardness, because they are God's creatures? |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2543139 |