Shakespeare's Religious Language: A Dictionary

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9332-3
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

Reihe: Student Shakespeare Library

An A to Z reference guide to religious terms, concepts and references in Shakespeare.

Entries on over 1000 keywords, covering a wide range of religious terms, concepts and figures
- Shakespeare's figurative language often relies on a knowledge of religious allusions and references - this dictionary unravels the multiple meaning behind many of these terms
- Entries follow an easy to use three-part structure: definition and context for the term or concept; a 'guided-tour' through Shakespeare's usage of the term; a guide to further reading.

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 given to the prominence of Reformation controversy in these words, and to Shakespeare's often ingenious and playful metaphoric usage of them. Theological and religious commonplaces also assume a major place in the dictionary, as do overt references to biblical figures, biblical stories and biblical place-names; biblical allusions; church figures and saints.

Entries include: angel, baptism, catechism, cross, death's-head, devil, equivocation, evil, fool, Saint George, God, grace, heaven, idolatry, Jove, Lutheran, merit, Navarre, obsequy, Pope, pray, reform/reformation, sanctify, scripture, sin, soul, troth, unction, vice, and York.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hassel, R. Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Dictionary
Primary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
Index by Play
Index of entries

Über Autor(innen)

R.Chris Hassel, Jr. is Professor of English Emeritus at Vanderbilt University, USA.