Shakespeare's Binding Language

by John Kerrigan

Book Overview

This remarkable, innovative book explores the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges, and the other utterances and acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come. In early modern England, such binding language was everywhere. Oaths of office, marriage vows, legal bonds, and casual, everyday profanity gave shape and texture to life. The proper use of such language, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198818351
• ISBN13: 9780198818359
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"