Editing The Faerie Queene (section)

==Adaptation and derivative works==
Numerous adaptations in the form of [[children's literature]] have been made – the work was a popular choice in the 19th and early 20th century with over 20 different versions written, with the earliest being E. W. Bradburn's ''Legends from Spencer's Fairy Queen, for Children'' (1829), written in the form of a [[dialogue]] between mother and children. 19th-century adaptations often concentrated on the moral aspect of the tale.<ref>{{citation| encyclopedia = The Spenser Encyclopedia | editor-first = Albert Charles| editor-last = Hamilton | title = The Faerie Queene, children's versions| pages = 289– | publisher = University of Toronto Press | year = 1990}}</ref> Adaptions of the work were  more popular in the [[United Kingdom]] than in the [[United States]].<ref name="child1">{{citation| title = The Faerie Queene as Children's Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures| first = Velma | last = Bourgeois Richmond | publisher = McFarland and Company| year = 2016| at=  Preface, pp. 1–4}}</ref>

The [[Edwardian era]] was particularly rich in adaptation for children, and the works richly illustrated, with contributing artists including [[Arthur George Walker|A. G. Walker]], [[Gertrude Demain Hammond]], [[Thomas Heath Robinson|T. H. Robinson]], [[Frank C. Papé]], [[Brinsley Le Fanu]], and [[Henry Justice Ford|H. J. Ford]].<ref name="child1"/> Additionally, [[Walter Crane]] illustrated a six-volume collection of the complete work, published 1897, considered a great example of the [[Arts and Crafts]] movement.<ref>{{citation| url = https://exhibits.library.unt.edu/spring-exhibit/walter-cranes-faerie-queene-1897| title = The Cat's Out Of The Bag: Walter Crane's Faerie Queene , 1897 | work = www.library.unt.edu }}</ref><ref>{{citation| url =http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/booklibrary/tag/arts-crafts/| title = Featured Book: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene | date = 24 Apr 2013 | first = Eleanor | last = Keane | work = The Courtauld Institute of Art (Book Library Blog) }}</ref>

In "[[The Mathematics of Magic]]", the second of [[Fletcher Pratt]] and [[L. Sprague de Camp]]'s [[The Complete Compleat Enchanter|Harold Shea stories]], the modern American adventurers Harold Shea and Reed Chalmers visit the world of ''The Faerie Queene'', where they discover that the greater difficulties faced by Spenser's knights in the later portions of the poem are explained by the evil enchanters of the piece having organized a guild to more effectively oppose them. Shea and Chalmers reveal this conspiracy to the knights and assist in its overthrow. In the process, Belphebe and Florimel of Faerie become respectively the wives of Shea and Chalmers and accompany them on further adventures in other worlds of myth and fantasy.

A considerable part of [[Elizabeth Bear]]'s "Promethean Age" series<ref>{{cite web|last=Monette|first=Sarah|title=An Interview with Elizabeth Bear, conducted by Sarah Monette|url=https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Elizabeth+Bear%27s+%22Promethean+Age%22&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&sourceid=Mozilla-search&start=0#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_nf=1&tok=fGCbg3M4XX5PLux3JCZiJA&pq=elizabeth%20bear%27s%20%22promethean%20age%22%20%22secret%20history%22%20review&cp=51&gs_id=iw&xhr=t&q=Elizabeth+Bear%27s+%22Promethean+Age%22+%22secret+history%22&pf=p&safe=off&sclient=psy-ab&oq=Elizabeth+Bear%27s+%22Promethean+Age%22+%22secret+history%22+&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=22adff2dc2288598&biw=840&bih=359&bs=1|publisher=Subterranean Press|access-date=4 October 2012}}</ref> takes place in a Kingdom of Faerie which is loosely based on the one described by Spenser. As depicted by Bear, Spenser was aware of this Kingdom's existence and his work was actually a description of fact rather than invented fantasy; Queen [[Elizabeth I]] had a secret pact of mutual help with the Queen of Faerie; and such historical characters as [[Christopher Marlowe]] and [[William Shakespeare]] visited Faerie and had adventures there.

According to Richard Simon Keller, [[George Lucas]]'s ''[[Star Wars (film)|Star Wars]]'' film also contains elements of a loose adaptation, as well as being influenced by other works, with parallels including the story of the Red Cross Knight championing Una against the evil Archimago in the original compared with Lucas's Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Darth Vader. Keller sees extensive parallels between the film and book one of Spenser's work, stating "[A]lmost everything of importance that we see in the ''Star Wars'' movie has its origin in ''The Faerie Queene'', from small details of weaponry and dress to large issues of chivalry and spirituality".<ref>{{citation| title=  Trash Culture : Popular Culture and the Great Tradition| first = Richard | last = Keller Simon| pages = 29–37 | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1999 |chapter  =4. Star Wars and the Faerie Queen }}</ref>