IV - The Context: Sources and Analogues

Joanna Udall

From A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin (Q1662) (1991), pp. 33-88, doi:10.59860/td.c8cc1ff

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Part of the book: A Critical, Old-Spelling Edition of The Birth of Merlin (Q1662)

Joanna Udall

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Abstract.  Chronicle History and Romance; The Devil and Magic; Modesta and Constantia; The Clown, Joan and Sir Nicodemus Nothing; ‘The Birth of Merlin’ and ‘Cupid’s Revenge’; ‘The Birth of Merlin’ and ‘Hengist King of Kent’.

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