00. That is, Greenblatt does situate Spenser in relation to English imperialism, includ-
ing the colonization of Ireland. But this contextualization is made chiefly in the interests
of an application of Freud's thesis in Civilization and Its Discontents concerning the pro-
duction of culture by means of repression and the violent repudiation of pleasure to The
Faerie Queene's announced aim of "fashioning a gentleman," specifically as that project is
played out in terms of Guyon's exorbitantly violent destruction of the Bower of Bliss.