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(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul: 1975) First Edition. ISBN 0 7100 8100 6. Boards (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 140. Illustrated. Notes. Index. First Edition. About fine copy in like price-clipped dust-jacket. ISBN 0710081006 9780710081001 [AU]
ISBN10: 0710081006, ISBN13: 9780710081001, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Group.] Hardcover SHAKESPEARE'S LAST PLAYSDr Frances Yates is well known for her brilliant and illuminating studies on Renaissance iconography and symbolism and on the Hermetic tradition. In this new book she brings many years of research to bear on Shakespearean problems, with startlingly original results. Dr Yates relates the imagery of the last plays to the revival of the Elizabethan idea around Prince Henry and Princess Elizabeth, children of James I.The new approach brings out Shakespeare's sympathy with this movement and makes possible a new interpretation of Cymbeline through relating its imagery to the revival of Tudor mythology. The influence of the Tudor imperial reform is traced in Henry VIII, expanded in the direction of religious toleration. And in the study of magic in the last plays, a new significance for Prospero emerges, as representing a revival of respect for a Magus-figure, such as John Dee had been in the Elizabethan age. The magical-mystical atmosphere of the last plays is compared with that of the Rosicrucian movement in Germany with which it is suggested that Shakespeare was in sympathy. New light is also directed on Ben Jonson's attitude to Shakespeare.The book connects closely with two of Dr Yates's previous works, Astraea and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, and it suggests entirely new and exciting routes into the understanding of Shakespeare&apos ...
London, England: Routledge Kegan & Paul, Date: 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good- Dust Jacket. 8x5x0. Signed by Other. London, 1975. First edition. Very good in very good- dust jacket. SIGNED by Robert Bly (his former copy) inside top corner "Robert Bly June 29 '89" with a note on endpaper referencing p. 96. In Bly's hand: "Prospero as a defense of John Dee, respected by James I but helped by his son Prince Henry". Turned at corner with ink marks in margin on pages 96 and 98 (Chapter 4, Magic in the Last Plays: 'The Tempest'). Clipped dust jacket has rubbing, light edgewear. Gift from his daughter Mary, inscribed on half title "Merry Christmas Dad! With lots of love and pride, Mary Minneapolis December 1987." Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1975. Routledge Kegan & Paul ISBN 0710081006 9780710081001 [US]
Routledge Kegan & Paul 1975 First Edition Hardcover Very Good. Very Good-Dust Jacket Size: 8x5x0; London, 1975. First edition. Very good in very good-dust jacket. SIGNED by Robert Bly (his former copy) inside top corner "Robert Bly June 29 '89" with a note on endpaper referencing p. 96. In Bly's hand: "Prospero as a defense of John Dee, respected by James I but helped by his son Prince Henry". Turned at corner with ink marks in margin on pages 96 and 98 (Chapter 4, Magic in the Last Plays: 'The Tempest'). Clipped dust jacket has rubbing, light edgewear. Gift from his daughter Mary, inscribed on half title "Merry Christmas Dad! With lots of love and pride, Mary Minneapolis December 1987." Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
ISBN10: 0710081006, ISBN13: 9780710081001, [publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul] Hardcover First Edition London, 1975. First edition. Very good in very good- dust jacket. SIGNED by Robert Bly (his former copy) inside top corner "Robert Bly June 29 '89" with a note on endpaper referencing p. 96. In Bly's hand: "Prospero as a defense of John Dee, respected by James I but helped by his son Prince Henry". Turned at corner with ink marks in margin on pages 96 and 98 (Chapter 4, Magic in the Last Plays: 'The Tempest'). Clipped dust jacket has rubbing, light edgewear. Gift from his daughter Mary, inscribed on half title "Merry Christmas Dad! With lots of love and pride, Mary Minneapolis December 1987." Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1975]
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