Stories from the Faerie Queen

Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599) was an English poet, considered to be one of the founders of Modern English verse and one of the greatest and most successful poets of English Language of all. He used archaic language of Choser and Petrarca, who had greatly influenced Spencer. A lot of other British poets, like Milton, Blake, Keats and other admired Spence, who was often called a Poets’ Poet. Queen Elizabeth I personally granted him a lifelong pension for his poetry.

Jean Lang (1857-1932) was a writer and folklorist. The main fields of her interests were ancient mythology and legends, their origins and changing over time. A Book of Myths (1914) is one of the most know works of Jeanie Lang, as well as Stories of the Border Marches (1916).

Stories from the Faerie Queen is a prosaic adaptation of storylines from one of the greatest epic poems of English literature ever, the Faeire Queene, designed to excite interest and provide different view of this doubtless masterpiece.