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Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance - Shakespeare's Sibyls (Paperback)
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Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance - Shakespeare's Sibyls (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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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 Apocalypse. The identity of the sibyls, however, was not
limited to this particular aspect of their fame, but contained a
fluid multi-layering of meanings given their prominence in ancient
Greek and Roman cultures, as well as the widespread dissemination
of prophecies attributed the sibyls that circulated through the
oral tradition. Sibylline prophecy of the Middle Ages served as
another conduit through which sibylline authority, fame, and
familiarity was transmitted and enhanced. Writers as disparate as
John Foxe, John Dee, Thomas Churchyard, John Fletcher, Thomas
Heywood, Jane Seager, John Lyly, An Collins, William Shakespeare,
and many draw upon this shared sibylline tradition to produce
particular and specific meanings in their writing. This book
explores the many identities, the many faces, of the prophetic
sibyls as they appear in the works of English Renaissance writers.
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