Shakespeare's Promises

By William Kerrigan and Professor William Kerrigan

Book Overview

Although virtually ignored by literary theorists, oaths, vows, contracts and promises are obligations which motivate plots, text characters, provide rhetorical occasions, structure ironies and open thematic horizons. According to William Kerrigan, they had particular importance for Shakespeare, who wrote at a decisive moment in the history of promising, towards the end of its High Christian phase and near the beginning of its metaphysically lessened, though still central, role in the contractual state.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801861632
• ISBN13: 9780801861635
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher