ALLEGORY DOES NOT SUBLIMATE THE PHYSICALITY OF THE BODY, RATHER IT INTENSIFIES IT - intensified further through allegorical figurations that are compounded upon each other
Errour: she is a figure of allegory itself, she must be unravelled through signifiers
Britomart's mirror: we are placed into a world that is already moving, these characters are not static - kind of like a magic seeing orb → this world is not contingent on understanding the personifications - it functions regardless?
None of the figures mentioned are satisfactorily understood as abstractions
allegory in action (rather than static - Gloriana is static in her perfection, she is fragmented into various characters who move - Britomart is most interesting in terms of movement; a displaced Gloriana)
Female figures that can at once ‘be’ allegorical, be compounded of various dynamic or discrete allegories, AND work on their own terms as agents, fields of emotion