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Book Title: Prophecy And Sibylline Imagery In The Renaissance: Shakespea...
Number of Pages: 202 Pages
Publication Name: Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance : Shakespeare's Sibyls
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Subjects & Themes / Women, Shakespeare, Europe / Great Britain / Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603), European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Author: Jessica L. Malay
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
