Shakespeare's binding language [electronic resource] / John Kerrigan.
Kerrigan, John, author.
2016
PR3072 .K48 2016eb
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Title
Shakespeare's binding language [electronic resource] / John Kerrigan.
Author
Kerrigan, John, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191817342 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198757580
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 622 pages)
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198757580 doi
Call Number
PR3072 .K48 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
822.33
Summary
'Shakespeare's Binding Language' is an innovative, substantial but highly readable study exploring the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges and the other verbal and performative acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come.
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'Shakespeare's Binding Language' is an innovative, substantial but highly readable study exploring the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges and the other verbal and performative acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 28, 2016).
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Shakespeare's binding language.
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Introduction
Early revenge: 3 Henry VI to Titus Andronicus
Swearing in jest: Love's labour lost
A world
without-end bargain: Love's labour lost
Group revenge: Titus Andronicus to Othello
Time and money: The comedy of errors and The merchant of Venice
Shylock and wedlock: carnal bonds
Mighty opposites: 2 Henry VI to Hamlet
Oaths, threats, and Henry V
Troilus, Cressida, and constancy
Binding language in Measure for measure
Knots, charms, riddles: Macbeth and All's well that ends well
Benefits and bonds: King Lear and Timon of Athens
Reformation I: Kings James, King Johan, and King John
Reformation II: Sir Thomas More and Henry VIII
Coriolanus fidiussed
Oath and counsel: Cymbeline and The winter's tale
Epilogue.

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