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.
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.
John Kerrigan was brought up in Liverpool. After studying at Oxford he went to a lectureship at Cambridge, where he is Professor of English 2000 and a Fellow of St John's College. He has published on many subjects, from classical drama through Renaissance literature to modern British and Irish poetry. 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. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
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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
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
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