Elizabeth's Glass: With "The Glass of the Sinful Soul" (1544) by Elizabeth I and "Epistle Dedicatory" and "Conclusion" (1548) by John Bal

by Marc Shell

As a girl of eleven, Elizabeth I translated into English a poem by Marguerite of Navarre on incest, spiritual and physical. Four years later her translation, tided "The Glass of the Sinful Soul," was published by the Protestant reformer John Bale. However ingenuous Elizabeth may have been at eleven, she surely realized the implications of the tract when she permitted new editions in 1568, 1582, and 1590. Its bearing on her own family and her precarious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803242166
• ISBN13: 9780803242166
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"