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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... PRIEST ( A ) A priest of modest talent , little learning and low status . ( B ) Sir Nathaniel is such a figure in LLL , ' the hedge - priest ' who forms part of the ill - qualified cast of the Pageant of the Nine Worthies ( LLL 5.2.542 ) ...
... priests ' ( PER 5.1.242 ) . ' Jack priest ' and ' jack - a - nape priest ' is a frequent insult uttered by the French physician Caius in WIV ( as in 1.4.109 , 117 ) ; it means basically worthless , an ape or a fop . He refers to the Welch ...
... priest , prophet2 , purged , revealed , reverend , right ' , rightful , shave , shrine , sign , sin ' , spirit ' , stigmatic , thank , treasury , trumpet , ungracious , unhallowed3 , virtuous , vow ' , will2 , Winchester , witch ...