Shakespeare's Binding Language

ISBN-13: 9780198818359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 640 str.

John Kerrigan

Opis

Shakespeare's Binding Language is an innovative, substantial but highly readable study exploring the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges and the other verbal and performative acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come.

Recenzje

brilliant ... dazzling ... capacious, generous ... this book will remain a resource for students and scholars for decades.

O autorze

John Kerrigan is Professor of English 2000 at the University of Cambridge. Among his books are an edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (1986), Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (1996), and Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 (2008). He has lectured in many parts of the world and writes for the TLS and the London Review of Books.