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Adjudication in Book 5: Retributive vs. distributive justice. Some background on English-Irish strife. Revenge as wild justice. Can justice come into play between nations?

Scudamor at the Temple of Venus. Jealousy and friendship. Love and hate. The relation of all to the idea of justice, broached in Book 5

The Aristotlean idea of friendship: the friend as second self. The nature of this combined subjectivity. Its relation to love, and jealousy. Siblings. Marriage. Weddings.

The spectrum of virtues from private to social. Similarities and differences between love and friendship. Their relation to jealousy.

The philosophical relation of matter to form in the Garden of Adonis. The strange reversal in Spenser, whereby matter is eternal, but forms decay. What this has to do with poetry. Time the troubled. Jealousy vs. chastity.

Living in the land of Faery, vs. living in reality, and vs. living in the world of Platonic forms. The proem to Book 6. The Garden of Adonis and what it was like to live there once -- the Wordsworthian strain in Spenser. Knowing what it was like "by tryall." Literary need: the creation and establishment of that kind of need.

Allegory for whom? Why the house of Busirane? Whom is it for? Britomart? Amoret? Scudamor? How does the House of Busirane work in each of these three cases?

Allegory and human individuality. What it means to turn people into allegories. A version of road rage. Temporal fouls ups as Britomart wounds Marinell after she sees Florimel racing to aid the already-wounded Marinel. What Britomart's wound means. Her pleasure in her distress. Seeing and wounding. Adonis.

Plot vs. allegory in Britomart. Allegory in the service of plot. Allegories about the primacy of plot, of human character to symbolization.

Guyon vs. Britomart: why? How do chastity and temperance find difficulty harmonizing? Arthur and Guyon go chasing Florimel. What could that mean? Why is Timias the one figure who chases the Foster? Castle Joyous. Britomart's wound by Gardante. What is the meaning of that wound?