Shakespeare's binding language

by John Kerrigan

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First published: 2016 1 language ISBN: 9780198818359
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'Shakespeare's Binding Language' is an innovative, substantial but highly readable study exploring the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges and the other verbal and performative acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come.

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