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Yates, Dame Frances Amelia

Yates, Dame Frances Amelia (1899–1981),
English academic, author of a long series of learned studies of the English and European Renaissance, particularly in areas of secret, occult, and recondite knowledge, such as The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (1979). Other works throw new light on the intellectual and philosophical background to Shakespeare's plays, including theories of the Elizabethan stage: New Light on the Globe Theater (1966); The Art of Memory (1966); The Theatre of the World (1969); Astraea (1975); and Shakespeare's Last Plays (1975).

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