Shakespeare's Religious Language: A DictionaryReligious 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. |
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... Donne's discussions of this concept suggests its possible relevance to Hamlet's laments about both ' this too too sallied [ i.e. sullied , or solid ( F1 ) ] flesh ' and the ' shocks / That flesh is heir to ' ( HAM 1.2.129 ; 3.1.61-2 ) ...
... Donne's cynical speaker in ' Love's Alchemy ' ( 1971 ) says that the gullible lover who believes ' tis not the bodies marry but the minds ' would also swear ' that he hears / In that day's rude , hoarse minstralsy , the spheres ' ( 19 ...
... Donne , John , The Sermons of John Donne , ed . George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson , Berkeley , CA : University of California Press , 1953-62 . [ Donne ] . Donne , John , The Anniversaries , ed . Frank Manley , Baltimore , MD ...