But there is no equality under the current law, and Edmund's ideal is not reality. Edmund feels that each brother, equally loved, should share equally in his father's bounty. Edmund's soliloquy reveals his plan to undermine his brother's position by tricking his father with a forged letter, which he presents to Gloucester in this scene.Įdmund also succeeds in convincing Edgar that he's looking out for his brother's safety when he suggests that Edgar carry a weapon as protection from their father's anger - a wrath, Edmund intimates, that's directed toward Edmund.Įdmund's musings offer insight into his unhappiness.
In this soliloquy, Edmund figuratively asks Nature why society sees him as inferior to his brother Edgar simply because he is not his father's legitimate firstborn. Parent-Child Relationships : The Neglect of Natural LawĮdmund enters the scene - set in the Earl of Gloucester's house - talking out loud to himself.Pope, National History in the Heroic Poem: A Comparison of the Aeneid and The Faerie Queene (New York, 1990) Catherine Rodgers, Time in the Narrative of The Faerie Queene (Salzburg, 1973) and Katherine A. See, for example, Thomas Francis Bulger, The Historical Changes and Exchanges as Depicted by Spenser in The Faerie Queene (Lewiston, 1993) Nancy P. The only subversive element he discovers in the episode is the unintended result of the textual instability inherent in all prophecy. Even Howard Dobin's perceptive analysis of the episode, in Merlin's Disciples: Prophecy, Poetry, and Power in Renaissance England (Stanford, 1990), sees Spenser's intention as entirely adulatory. , “ The Structure of Merlin's Chronicle in The Faerie Queene III (iii) ,” Studies in English Literature, 9 ( 1969 ), 39 – 51. McCabe, The Pillars of Eternity: Time and Providence in The Faerie Queene (Dublin, 1989), especially his section on prophecy and providential history (pp. All subsequent references appear in the text and are to this edition. Hoffman, “Reading History in the Orlando Furioso andįootnotes 1.
“Priuie to his Counsell and Secret Meaning”: Spenser and Political Prophecy “Priuie to his Counsell and Secret Meaning”: Spenser and Political Prophecyįootnotes 1.
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