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Book Title: Poison's Dark Works In Renaissance England
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Height: 1 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Author: Miranda Wilson
Publication Name: Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Subject: Renaissance, Comparative Literature, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 18.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 258 Pages
