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Subject(s)

• English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]
• European literature—Renaissance, 1450-1600—History and criticism [Browse]
• Shakespeare, William 1564-1616—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Sibyls in literature [Browse]
• Prophecies in literature [Browse]
• Women in literature [Browse]
• Great Britain—History—Elizabeth, 1558-1603 [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 15. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 15 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Sibylline heritage: from the mists of antiquity
• Reforming the Sibyl: the appropriation of the Sibyls in the Middle Ages and Reformation
• The Sibyls in Elizabeth's court and country
• The Sibyls: god's divines or she imps of Satan?
• Shakespeare's Sibyls
• To be a Sibyl: Jane Seager's sibylline poems
• The final act: revealing the Sibyls in Jacobean England.

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ISBN

• 9780415877923
• 041587792X
• 9780203850251 (ebk.)
• 0203850254 (ebk.)

LCCN

2009049751

OCLC

449889951

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