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Prophetic rhetoric in the early Stuart period

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This is a study of the political prophecy in England in a period delimited by the accession of King James I (1603) and the end of the Interregnum (1660). It combines the analysis of hitherto obscure manuscript texts with that of printed works to provide a nuanced account of the uses and reception of prophecies in this period.

Chapter One (which focuses on the first decade of James’s reign) and Chapter Two (which covers the period 1613-19) approach the analysis of dramatic treatments...

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University of Oxford
Oxford college:
Merton College
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University of Oxford
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St Hilda's College
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DPhil
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University of Oxford

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