edmund spenser's 'the fairie queene' (1956) draws connections between carnival and cannibalism

edmund spenser’s ‘the fairie queene’ (1596) draws connections between carnival and cannibalism, while critiquing 16th century english cannibalistic political schemes

from ‘carnival and literature in early modern english’, by jennifer c. vaught, 2012

“they do not produce any material goods themselves but exploit the productive labor of the lower ranks instead… these cannibals … preyed on the natural resources and slave labor of foreigners whose territorial borders they invaded…”