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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.
Sommario
- Preface
- Introduction
- Early Revenge: 3 Henry VI to Titus Andronicus
- Swearing in Jest: Love's Labour's Lost
- A World-Without-End Bargain: Love's Labour's 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: King 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Info autore
John Kerrigan is Professor of English 2000 at the University of Cambridge. Among his books are an edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (1986), Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (1996), and Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 (2008). He has lectured in many parts of the world and writes for the TLS and the London Review of Books.
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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.
Testo aggiuntivo
brilliant ... dazzling ... capacious, generous ... this book will remain a resource for students and scholars for decades.
