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What is Shakespeare's Binding Language about?
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 extent of its power to bind, was argued over by
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kerrigan, John;Shakespeare, William
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191074851
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Language Learning
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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