Swearing and Perjury in Shakespeare's Plays
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Author_Frances A Shirley
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Barry’s Ram Alley
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Casual Swearing
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censorship in theatre
Common Swearer
Consuls Base
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Doll Tearsheet
Dr Caius
early modern drama
Elizabethan society
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Final Kiss
Formal Oath
gloriosus
God's Wounds
Good Sooth
historical context of oaths in drama
Jack Drum's Entertainment
legal history England
literary character analysis
Merry Wives
miles
Miles Gloriosus
minced
Minced Oath
Noble Kinsmen
oath
oath-taking rituals
Richard III
Saint Peter's Church
Saint Peter’s Church
Tame Tigers
tearsheet
titus
Titus Andronicus
Troublesome Raigne
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415353069
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 23 Dec 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1979.
How do the elements of swearing and perjury work in Shakespeare's plays? What effect did Shakespeare intend when he wrote them? How did they contribute to the delineation of character? These questions are investigated by combining a history of ideas approach with close textual analysis.
The book begins by bringing together material from a wide range of contemporary sources in order to create a sense of popular awareness of oaths in Queen Elizabeth's time. Out of this emerges a scale of the relative strength of various oaths, an awareness of the ways in which people regarded perjury, and an appreciation of the attempts to prohibit profanity. Shakespeare's work is then examined against this background.
