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Description
The Fairy Queen is a set of six or seven different books writen by
the Poet's Poet about different knights of the court of the Fairy
Queen. Each Knight has a different quest that he or she must
fulfill. In Book 2, Sir Guymon fights a witch Acrasia, who is based
on Circe. She captures young knights, takes them to her Bower of
Bliss, goes through an orgy-like ritual and sucks out their souls,
and when she's done with them, she turns them into beasts to guard
her home.
I haven't yet read the whole thing, so their may be more in the
other books. This is perhaps one of the best fantasy books I've
ever read. The whole thing is a huge allegory of virtues, with each
knight's quest being the means of which said knight comes to
exemplify the value he or she represents. Wonderful characters,
powerful imagery and complex thematic elements, which the author
states in the introduction that you free to interpret however you
wish (It was written during the English Protestant reformation,
when it was considered bad to write fantasy, so I assume the
introduction was something of a disclaimer).
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originally posted by guest (UN Owen) on 2006-03-21, no edits, entryid=740
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