Polliticke Courtier

Although pervasive in Spenser''s art, the role of rhetoric has not been adequately addressed by critics. This disregard of the importance of rhetoric in The Faerie Queene, Dixon argues, obscures Spenser''s larger rhetorical method and the structural dynamic it generates. Dixon identifies Britomart''s evolution in Books III-V as the poem''s centre and elucidates the rhetorical strategies that inves...