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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... metaphor for human misfortunes . ( B ) Richard II says metaphorically of his own deposition by Bolingbroke , ' you Pilates / Have here delivered me to my sour cross ' ( R2 4.1.240-1 ) , but Richard compares himself too often to Christ ...
... metaphor , saying that when he feels himself becoming the slave of such distracting , worldly ' powers and princi- palities ' as ' cheerful conversation , ... musique , . . . feasting , ... Comedies , ... wantonnesse , ... [ and when ] ...
... metaphor occurs when Lysander says to the sleeping Hermia he is about to leave for Helena , ' as the heresies that ... metaphors 160.