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England's Looking Glass

There are a number of works with England's Looking Glass in the title. During the 16th and 17th centuries looking glass, meaning mirror, was frequently used in the titles of books.

  • Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London and England (c.1590), an Elizabethan era stage play
  • Edmund Calamy the Elder, England's Looking Glass (1642)
  • William Mercer (poet), "Angliae speculum, or, England's Looking-Glasse" (1646)
  • Elizabeth Pool, The Bloudy Almanack, or England's Looking-Glass (1651). (Containing the Scots Prophesie to their King)
  • Rowlinson, "A Recollection of the Times, or England's Looking-Glass" (1680). It is a ballad that begins "0 Sinful World ! rouse up thy sleepy head ..."
  • Ethan Abbe, "England's Looking-Glass, Tales of the Human Condition" (1812)

References

  1. In the same way mirror is now used figuratively in the names of publications like [[The Daily Mirror]]
  2. [[Oxford English Dictionary]] "Looking-glass" b. ''fig''. (In the 16th and 17th cents. frequently used in the titles of books.) Now ''rare'' (= ‘mirror’).
  3. Lily B. Campbell (2005) ''Shakespeare's Histories: Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy'', Routledge, {{ISBN. 0-415-35310-6, {{ISBN
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