...most stunning gesture in The Faerie Queene occurs when Spenser writes that "the generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline,"31 and then he begins that program of virtuous fashioning by saying...

...Spenser's Legend of Chastity, the dream of which is to fulfill the 'general! end' of The Faerie Queene: 'to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline' (Letter to Ralegh). Specifically, Shakespeare's young man appears to be modeled not only on the Marlovian...

...holy scripture as it is in classical mythology and courtly romance tradition; this book's "end ... is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline."17 Elsewhere I have shown that even the most rabid Renaissance anti-theatricalists structured...

...understood. In his outline of the work, the 'Letter to Ralegh', he explains that 'The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.' 35 He does this by presenting exemplary characters, like Britomart, Calidore, and the other knights;...

...creative action rather than temporal achievement. Spenser's poetic vision of human perfectibility, "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," is based on an imaginative series of reconstructions of the myth of Sisyphus and its archetypal idealization...

...been surprised, I think, to read what Spenser said to Raleigh about his chief intention in the poem: 'to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline' by exemplifying 'the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised'. Insofar as the Faerie...