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Amoret (Amoretta) typical of female loveliness. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene, Brewer Dictionary, 30] See : Beauty, Feminine Amoret Sir Scudamore’s wife; loving and ever-devoted. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene]
See : Wifeliness |
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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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