Editing The Faerie Queene (section)

==References in popular culture==
The Netflix series ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]'' references ''The Faerie Queene'' and Gloriana in season 1 episode 10, entitled "Gloriana". In the final scene, Queen Elizabeth II, portrayed by [[Claire Foy]], is being photographed. Prompting Her Majesty's poses, [[Cecil Beaton]] says:<blockquote>"All hail sage Lady, whom a grateful Isle hath blessed."<ref>William Wordsworth, ''Ecclesiastical Sonnets'', XXXVIII.</ref> Not moving, not breathing. Our very own goddess. ''Glorious Gloriana''. Forgetting Elizabeth Windsor now. Now only Elizabeth Regina. Yes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-crown-2016&episode=s01e10|title=The Crown (2016) s01e10 Episode Script {{!}} SS|website=Springfield! Springfield!|access-date=2018-08-07}}</ref></blockquote>

Near the end of the 1995 adaptation of ''[[Sense and Sensibility (movie)|Sense and Sensibility]]'', [[Colonel Brandon]] reads ''The Faerie Queene'' aloud to [[Marianne Dashwood]].

Quotes from the poem are used as epigraphs in ''[[Troubled Blood]]'' by Robert Galbraith, a pen name of [[J. K. Rowling]].

In the ''[[Thursday Next]]'' series by [[Jasper Fforde]], Granny Next (who is an older version of Thursday Next herself) is condemned to reading the "ten most boring classics" before she can die. She finally passes away after reading ''The Faerie Queene''.

An early, influential text-based computer game that was based on the ''[[Star Trek]]'' television show, originally entitled ''[[Star_Trek_(1971_video_game)|Star Trek]]'' and later ''Super Star Trek'', was published in 1971 by Mike Mayfield. In one of the first instances of [[Spawning_(video_games)|respawning]] in a computer game, the player could abandon ship if the [[Starship Enterprise|USS ''Enterprise'']] became too damaged to continue fighting, in which case the replacement ship was named the ''Faerie Queene''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allyngibson.com/?p=34001|title=Saving the Galaxy, One Quadrant and Sector at a Time|website=Allyn Gibson:Made of awesome and Guinness and bright shiny pennies…|date=4 March 2023 |access-date=2023-08-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.catb.org/~esr/super-star-trek/sst-doc.html#idm363|title=Super Star Trek: Abandon Ship|website=Super Star Trek|access-date=2023-08-07}}</ref>