John Kerrigan

Shakespeare's Binding Language

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 962g
• ISBN-13: 9780198818359
• ISBN-10: 0198818351
• Artikelnr.: 49133307

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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