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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... Falstaff , though Bardolph and Hotspur each use it once . Interestingly , several of his apparently casual references to Christ's blood occur in contexts associated with Falstaff's own great body and his even greater fear of losing ...
... Falstaff ' that vanity in years ' ( 1H4 2.4.454 ) . Hal also says over the apparently dead Falstaff , ' O , I should have a heavy miss of thee / If I were much in love with vanity ! ' ( 1H4 5.4.105–6 ) . Here most clearly Falstaff is ...
... Falstaff's claim that Hal had made him ' little better than one of the wicked ' takes on some religious meaning ... Falstaff caps off his moral and religious excursion by connecting the ' wicked ' with the fallen , and thus with ...