ENGLISH 4522 Lecture 1: Book I Canto ii
24 Apr 2017
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Summary (100-150 words max): archimago shows redcross the false una and the false squire having sex. Redcross becomes wroth and leaves with the dwarf. Una awakens and weeps, and then she pursues redcross (slow). Archimago fashions himself as st. george (first mentioned) and pursues una. Knights fight: redcross slays sansfoy and the dwarf carries sansfoy"s shield. Redcross captures duessa, and she becomes his lady. The group rests under trees, and redcross breaks a branch. He tells redcross how duessa deceived him: duessa dimmed the light with mist and made fralissa appear ugly. Fradubio chooses duessa, and fralissa is turned into a tree. Later, fradubio sees the ugly duessa bathing (upper half). He flees, but she turns him into a tree. Redcross does not make the connection between duessa and. Prince (christ) who was slain (i. ii. 23-24); she claims to be a virgin widow whom.
