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Episode: Season 4 Podcast 155 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Book I, Canto 9 Pt I Episode 23 “King Arthur’s History.”
Description: Season 4 Podcast 155 Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen, Book I, Canto 9 Pt I Episode 23 “King Arthur’s History.” In last week’s episode, Una commands that Duessa strip off her royal robes. While wearing her queenly attire, Duessa was strikingly beautiful and alluring. She used her charms to seduce men, even the Redcross Knight. However, Duessa is the Whore of Babylon spoken of by John the Revelator. Without her royal attire, she is revealed to be hideously ugly and repulsive to anyone who sees her. She symbolizes the ugliness of sin which is often camouflaged by earthly...