SOURCE: "An Anatomy of The Phoenix and the Turtle," in Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespearian Study and Production, Vol. 15, 1962, pp. 99-110.
In the following essay, Ellrodt examines Elizabethan and Renaissance sources of phoenix imagery and explores the symbolic importance of this mythic bird in Shakespeare's The Phoenix and Turtle.
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