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The first section of The Faerie Queene is a relatively straightforward “knight vs. dragon” scene, in which the dragon is described with various exclamations of her wretchedness, then killed by the knight. What is included in the stanza after the dragon’s death, however, threw me off a little: “Her scattred brood, soone as their Parent… Read more The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 1: on the Dragon’s Brood

Marie de France’s “Bisclavret” tells the story of a knight who keeps his werewolf form hidden from his wife until she gets him to explain why he leaves every week. She promptly leaves him for a normal knight, who she sends to steal Bisclavret’s clothes to trap him in wolf-form. Eventually, Bisclavret is caught by… Read more 9/15: Crime & Punishment in “Bisclavret”