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Episode: Season 4 Podcast 110 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Canto 3 Episode 8 “The Adventures of Una.” Pt II
Description: Season 4 Podcast 110 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Canto 3 Episode 8 “The Adventures of Una.” Pt IIIn the previous Podcast, # 107, The Redcross Knight listens to the tale of The Weeping Tree. It is a warning to the Redcross Knight to flee from Duessa; however, the Knight does not heed the warning because Duessa presented herself as Fidessa, the daughter of an Emperor who had been kidnapped by Sansfoy.Having lost Sansfoy, Duessa seeks to destroy the Redcross Knight by causing him to lose his virtue, the source of his strength.