Spenser's continuation and divergence from the Arthurian romance tradition are discussed in order to clarify the dialectical equiponderant relationship between romance and allegory of the poem.
" The Threepenny Opera" was such a runaway success not because people were so on fire for Brecht rendering London's criminal underworld as an allegory for exploitative labor practices in a play-staged-as-such.
That's actually what Plato suggested in his Allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of " The Republic, " in which the Greek philosopher envisioned the ideal society by examining concepts like justice, truth and beauty.