Violet makes a major discovery about her family history when she learns of Fidelia’s lost twin, Septimus, through an engraving on a locket. Folger Shakespeare Library: H-P Reliques no.9 (realia). This illustration of the Providential eye overseeing a wreck bares striking similarities to an illustration of Shakespeare’s The Tempest from Nicholas Rowe’s 1709 edition of the plays. James Janeway’s A Token for Mariners is a catalogue of these dangers, compiling the historic details of 29 shipwrecks alongside a collection of prayers and sermons to aid in a variety of sea-faring situations. Wrecks appear again and again in Shakespeare’s plays, reflective of the booming oceanic exploration occurring at the time and the perils that went with it. Folger Shakespeare Library: PR2752 1709b Copy 1 v.1 Sh.Col.Ĭentral to Drake’s contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare’s story is Violet’s search for the Lyric, the shipwreck survived by her great-great-great-grandmother, Fidelia. William Shakespear : in nine volumes : adorn’d with cuts / revis’d and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Folger Shakespeare Library: BV4590 J3 1721 Cage A token for mariners, containing many famous and wonderful instances of God’s providence in sea dangers and deliverances.
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