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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... merely someone's response to a moment of success or carry theological meaning , and a ' blessed plot ' , a ' blessed shore ' , or a ' blessed land ' ( as in R2 2.1.50 ; 2H6 3.2.90 ; 3H6 4.6.21 ) could refer to a kingdom marked by God's ...
... merely ' leave the world for me to bustle in ' ( R3 1.1.151–2 ) . Para- doxically , God's revenge , or perhaps merely Tudor revenge , comes when Rich- ard's dream of the eleven ghosts leads him to the momentarily serious prayer , ' Have ...
... merely socially impolite ; in a few instances the surrounding words encourage the religious reading , ' without grace ' , meaning divorced from God's favour or forgiveness . Thus in TN Olivia's calling Toby Belch an ' Ungracious wretch ...