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The Red Cross Knight is a heroic character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, the longest poem in the English language, and one of the most interesting. The character enters the story with a beautiful princess and a dwarf. The three are on a quest to liberate the princess's parents from the dungeon that an evil dragon consigned them to. Their quest puts the Red Cross Knight into many perilous situations and he fights battles that are rather Homeric in intensity, though much shorter in duration than the usual Homeric set piece. He is also a man who makes many mistakes and who has many misadventures with scheming women who disguise themselves as good in order to frolic with him. (Una and the Red Cross Knight, by George Frederic Watts.)
Saturday, July 11, 2009
The Red Cross Knight
The Red Cross Knight is a heroic character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, the longest poem in the English language, and one of the most interesting. The character enters the story with a beautiful princess and a dwarf. The three are on a quest to liberate the princess's parents from the dungeon that an evil dragon consigned them to. Their quest puts the Red Cross Knight into many perilous situations and he fights battles that are rather Homeric in intensity, though much shorter in duration than the usual Homeric set piece. He is also a man who makes many mistakes and who has many misadventures with scheming women who disguise themselves as good in order to frolic with him. (Una and the Red Cross Knight, by George Frederic Watts.)
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