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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... repentance : ' the young lion repents , [ aside ] marry , not in ashes and sackcloth , but in new silk and old sack ' ( 2H4 1.2.197-8 ) . Ashes of repentance are probably combined with the black garments of mourning when Richard II ...
A Dictionary R. Chris Hassel Jr. REPENT , REPENTANCE of ' repentance ' in Shakespeare . Attempting to pray after his sense of guilt is aroused by ' The Mousetrap ' play , Claudius confesses his sin and expresses his contrition : ' O my ...
... repentance from which the former dutie procedeth . And of contrition the first part of that dutie ' ( VI.3 ) . See also Becon ( 3 : 618 ) and the sermon by Andrewes ' On Repentance and Fasting ' , preached to King James at Whitehall on ...