Shakespeare's binding language / John Kerrigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerrigan, John, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Language.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Oaths in literature.

Contracts in literature.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xi, 622 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Early Revenge: 3 Henry VI to Titus Andronicus 43

3 Swearing in Jest: Love's Labour's Lost 67

4 A World-With out-End Bargain: Love's Labour's Lost 97

5 Group Revenge: Titus Andronicus to Othello 125

6 Time and Money: The Comedy of Errors and The Merchant of Venice 146

7 Shylock and Wedlock: Carnal Bonds 174

8 Mighty Opposites: 2 Henry VI to Hamlet 209

9 Oaths, Threats, and Henry V 237

10 Troilus, Cressida, and Constancy 256

11 Binding Language in Measure for Measure 290

12 Knots, Charms, Riddles: Macbeth and All's Well That Ends Well 313

13 Benefits and Bonds: King Lear and Timon of Athens 336

14 Reformation 1: King James, King Johan, and King John 367

15 Reformation II: Sir Thomas More and Henry VIII 395

16 Coriolanus Fidiussed 419

17 Oath and Counsel: Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale 443

18 Epilogue 470.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-596) and index.

ISBN:

9780198757580

0198757581

OCLC:

920724492