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Amoret

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Amoret (Amoretta)
typical of female loveliness. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene, Brewer Dictionary, 30]

Amoret
Sir Scudamore’s wife; loving and ever-devoted. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene]

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McManus argues convincingly that these women may have read The Faerie Queene all the more avidly for feeling their own vexed negotiations played out in the tortured plots of the Amoret, Florimell, Serena and Priscilla stories.
At Bolsover, however, we are faced with a structure that is at once a House of Virtue, celebrating the heroism of a Hercules, and a House of Busyrane, contrived for the corruption of an Amoret.
Ignoring the fact that Amoret was kidnapped just "before the bride was bedded" and rejecting attempts to compare and contrast her innamoramento with Britomart's, Broaddus dismisses the current interpretation of Amoret's experiences at the House of Busyrane: "it is not likely that [Spenser] would focus a climactic episode .
 
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