Class and Society in ShakespeareThe Continuum Shakespeare Dictionaries provide authoritative yet accessible guides to the principal subject-areas covered by the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. The dictionaries provide readers with a comprehensive guide to the topic under discussion, its occurrence and significance in Shakespeare's works, and its contemporary meanings. Entries range from a few lines in length to mini-essays, providing the opportunity to explore an important literary or historical concept or idea in depth. Entries include: apothecary, bear-baiting, Caesar, degree, gentry, Henry V, kingdom, London, masque, nobility, plague, society, treason, usury, whore and youth. They follow an easy to use three-part structure: a general introduction to the term or topic; a survey of its significance and use in Shakespeare's plays and a guide to further reading. |
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... crucial in this respect . Isabella unknowingly touches on exactly the element of hypocrisy in Angelo's ostensibly strict religious character when she pleads for her brother's life ( MM 2.2.110-22 ) . Isabella's perspective brings the ...
... crucial in this respect . Isabella unknowingly touches on exactly the element of hypocrisy in Angelo's ostensibly strict religious character when she pleads for her brother's life ( MM 2.2.110-22 ) . Isabella's perspective brings the ...
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Paul Innes. This is the king's epitaph on Cawdor . But Duncan makes a crucial error , and it is one he is about to repeat : a king cannot afford to take a man at face value . To put absolute trust in someone with the military power to ...
Paul Innes. This is the king's epitaph on Cawdor . But Duncan makes a crucial error , and it is one he is about to repeat : a king cannot afford to take a man at face value . To put absolute trust in someone with the military power to ...
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... crucial difference between what happened to Richard II and what occurs under Henry VI seems to be based on two elements . The first is that Henry , unlike Richard , did not threaten the interests of the lords in general . And , secondly ...
... crucial difference between what happened to Richard II and what occurs under Henry VI seems to be based on two elements . The first is that Henry , unlike Richard , did not threaten the interests of the lords in general . And , secondly ...
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