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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... Saint Denis and Saint George ' he and she will ' compound ' a heroic boy ( H5 5.2.206-9 ) . Bedford , English Regent of France , promises ' Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make , / To keep our great Saint George's feast withal ...
A Dictionary R. Chris Hassel Jr. ' saint ' ( saint ' ) as a chosen one of God , the saint Angelo thought himself to be until this moment of temptation and fall . SAINT sb . A representation of a saint in art , like sculpture or painting ...
... Saint Nicholas , offerings , Oldcastle , pagan , painted , pardon , Paul's , pharaoh , pilgrim , pontifical , prayers , praying , prelate , Psalms , reverend , robe , rod , sacrifice1 , Saint ' , salvation , Satan , savel , ' sblood ...