1st Edition
Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance Shakespeare’s Sibyls
By Jessica L. Malay
Copyright 2010
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls — figures from classical antiquity — played important roles in literature, scholarship and art of the period, exerting a powerful authority due to their centuries-old connection to prophetic declamations of the coming of Christ and the... Read more
List of Figures Editorial Note Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Sibylline Heritage: From the Mists of Antiquity 2: Reforming the Sibyl: The Appropriation of the Sibyls in the Middle Ages and Reformation 3: The Sibyls in Elizabeth’s Court and Country 4: The Sibyls: God’s Divines or She Imps of Satan? 5: Shakespeare’s Sibyls 6: To be a Sibyl: Jane Seager’s Sibylline Poems 7: The Final Act: Revealing the Sibyls in Jacobean England Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Jessica Malay is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Huddersfield.
