Season 2
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Dr Janina Ramirez delves into Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene, revealing how this fantasy realm of elves, nymphs, and questing knights was forged amid the brutal Tudor occupation of Ireland, and how the writer's growing disillusionment with the conflict was encoded into the poem's restless verse.