SOURCE: Quilligan, Maureen. “The Comedy of Female Authority in The Faerie Queene.” English Literary Renaissance 17, no. 2 (spring 1987): 156-71.
In the following essay, Quilligan discusses Spenser's use of humor in writing about Queen Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene.
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