num_pages: 633
description: Published to commemorate the six-book 1596 edition, this first modernized text presents selections from modern England's first epic poem. A massive Arthurian romance that asserts national identity through the vivid myths of Christianity, The Fairy Queen simultaneously celebrates and critiques the Elizabethan Golden Age and the Queen who conjured it.
language: English
title: The Fairy Queen
titlecomplete: The Fairy Queen
genres: Literature, Classics, School, College, Fiction, Poetry, Epic, Fantasy, 16th Century, British Literature
ratings_count: 16485
series: The Faerie Queene Books
publisher: Everymans Library