First published in 1979.
How do the elements of swearing and perjury work in Shakespeare's
plays? What effect did Shakespeare intend when he wrote them? How
did they contribute to the delineation of character? These
questions are investigated by combining a history of ideas approach
with close textual analysis.
The book begins by bringing together material from a wide range of
contemporary sources in order to create a sense of popular
awareness of oaths in Queen Elizabeth's time. Out of this emerges a
scale of the relative strength of various oaths, an awareness of
the ways in which people regarded perjury, and an appreciation of
the attempts to prohibit profanity. Shakespeare's work is then
examined against this background.
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