Shakespeare's religious language

Shakespeare's religious language: a dictionary

by Hassel, R. Chris, (Rudolph Chris)

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Religious issues and religious discourse were vastly important in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and religious language is key to an understanding of Shakespeare's plays and poems. This dictionary discusses just over 1000 words and names in Shakespeare's works that have some religious denotation or connotation. Its unique word-by-word approach allows equal consideration of the full religious nuance of each of these words, from 'abbess' to 'zeal'. It also gradually reveals the persistence…

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  • Full title :Shakespeare's religious language : a dictionary / R. Chris Hassel, Jr.

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Religious issues and religious discourse were vastly important in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and religious language is key to an understanding of Shakespeare's plays and poems. This dictionary discusses just over 1000 words and names in Shakespeare's works that have some religious denotation or connotation. Its unique word-by-word approach allows equal consideration of the full religious nuance of each of these words, from 'abbess' to 'zeal'. It also gradually reveals the persistence, the variety, and the sophistication of Shakespeare's religious usage. . Frequent attention is giv.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2005.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Thoemmes Continuum
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781472555434, 1472555430
  • oclc:ocn944225958
  • LC Classification:PR2892
  • Dewey Decimal:822.3/3

Table of Contents

List of Figures; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; A-Z; Primary Bibliography; Secondary Bibliography; Index of Shakespeare's Works; General Index

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Subjects

Dictionaries English language -- Dictionaries. -- Ea… English language -- Early modern Glossaries, vocabularies, etc Language and languages RELIGION Religion -- Dictionaries Religion in literature Religion in literature -- Dictionaries Shakespeare, William

Writers

Hassel, R. Chris, (Rudolph Chris)

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