Shakespeare's Religious Language: A Dictionary

480 Pages·2015·2.119 MB·

by  R. Chris Hassel Jr., Sandra Clark

Shakespeare’s Religious Language
A Dictionary
ARDEN SHAKESPEARE DICTIONARY SERIES
Series Editor
Sandra Clark (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Class and Society in Shakespeare Paul Innes
Military Language in Shakespeare Charles Edelman
Shakespeare’s Books Stuart Gillespie
Shakespeare’s Demonology Marion Gibson
Shakespeare and the Language of Food Joan Fitzpatrick
Shakespeare’s Legal Language B. J. Sokol and Mary Sokol
Shakespeare’s Medical Language Sujata Iyengar
Shakespeare’s Non-Standard English N. F. Blake
Shakespeare’s Plants and Gardens V ivian Thomas and
Nicki Faircloth
Shakespeare’s Political and
Economic Language Vivian Thomas
Shakespeare’s Theatre Hugh Macrae Richmond
Women in Shakespeare Alison Findlay
Forthcoming:
Shakespeare’s Insults Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Shakespeare and National Identity Christopher Ivic
ARDEN SHAKESPEARE DICTIONARY SERIES
Shakespeare’s Religious
Language
A Dictionary
R. CHRIS HASSEL, JR
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To Sedley,
for her help and encouragement throughout the years
but especially on this project,
and for her faith, her hope, and her love.

Contents
List of Figures ix
Series Editor’s Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction xix
A–Z 1
Primary Bibliography 407
Secondary Bibliography 417
Index of Shakespeare’s Works 441
General Index 449

List of Figures
Figure1. Death holding a sceptre and mocking a man 86
Figure2. A death’s-head with a bone in its mouth 87
Figure3. Fool’s head 129
Figure4. Owl perched on a skull 210
Figure5. The Pelican in her Piety 242