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59 The Fairie Queen Book 1 Canto 1

(1590)

Edmund Spencer

While Peter Stubbe was getting burnt and beheaded, Edmund was writing a long epic poem about dangerous women. The trope of a long-haired supernatural seductress really got going in the Renaissance (hmm, around the same time as the Witch Craze, interesting). This trope would continue, gaining or losing popularity periodically, into today.

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Sci-fi & Fantasy Anthology by Edmund Spencer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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