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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... curse and ban ' ( 2H6 3.2.308 , 319 ) if only he believed in the efficacy of bans and curses . After her own formidable curses , Joan of Arc is also called ' Fell banning hag , enchantress ' as York asks her to ' hold thy tongue ' ( 1H6 ...
... curse from Rome ' ( JN 3.1.205 ) . ( C ) Donne justifies excommunication as biblical , as in Isa . 65.20 : ' These curses are deposited by God , in the Scriptures , and then inflicted by the Church , in her ordinary jurisdiction , by ...
... curses in R3 . CURSE3 sb . ( A ) God's enacted vengeance or punishment . ( B ) When Shylock says , ' The curse never fell upon our nation till now ' ( MV 3.1.85-6 ) , he refers to the biblical idea that God might have cursed Israel ...