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Paperback Shakespeare's Binding Language Book

ISBN: 0198818351

ISBN13: 9780198818359

Shakespeare's Binding Language

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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...

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