Abstract
Book VI of The Faerie Queene presents the reader with a rich and complex pattern of imagery, incident, and allegory. Within this pattern it is possible to discern a structural design based upon the traditional motives of fairy tale. We have a hero, Sir Calidore, committed to 'simple truth and stedfast honesty,' embarked upon a quest, 'to tread an endlesse trace, withouten guyde,' in pursuit of a monster, the 'Blattant Beast.' He defeats the villain Crudor in battle, and by good example reforms his defeated enemy; he rescues two maidens in distress, Serena from the Blatant Beast, and Pastorella first from a tiger and then from the hideout of a band of brigands; he becomes betrothed to Pastorella, who turns out to be not a simple shepherdess but the long lost daughter of a nobleman.
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