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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... fear with the ceremony the substance is gone too . If that conversion into ashes be well thought on , it will help forward our turning ' ( Andrewes , 1 : 362 ) . ( B ) ' General ceremony ' is secular ceremony to Henry V , the political ...
... fear ( SHR 3.2.160-1 ) . GOLGOTHA Calvary , the hill outside Jerusalem , called the ' place of a skull ' , where Jesus was crucified ( see Mark 15.22 ; John 19.17 ) . The Bishop of Carlisle , threatening disasters for England if King ...
... fear of God ' ( 1843 ) , 1 : 298 . ( B ) Jachimo's ' I see you have some religion in you , that you fear ' ( CYM 1.4.136- 7 ) is informed by this last assumption , as is the joke in LLL that the Schoolmaster Holofernes does ' this in the ...