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By Shakespeare, William; Hassel, R. Chris

ISBN-10: 0826458904

ISBN-13: 9780826458902

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ISBN-10: 1847142214

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Religious concerns and spiritual discourse have been enormously very important within the 16th and 17th century and spiritual language is essential to an figuring out of Shakespeare's performs and poems. This dictionary discusses simply over a thousand phrases and names in Shakespeare's works that experience a few spiritual denotation or connotation. Its particular word-by-word method permits equivalent attention of the whole non secular nuance of every of those phrases, from 'abbess' to 'zeal'. It additionally progressively finds the patience, the diversity, and the sophistication of Shakespeare's non secular usage.

Frequent consciousness is given to the prominence of Reformation controversy in those phrases, and to Shakespeare's usually inventive and playful metaphoric utilization of them. Theological and non secular commonplaces additionally suppose an immense position within the dictionary, as do overt references to biblical figures, biblical tales and biblical place-names; biblical allusions; church figures and saints.

Entries contain: angel, baptism, catechism, move, death's-head, satan, equivocation, evil, idiot, Saint George, GOd, grace, heaven, idolatry, Jove, Lutheran, benefit, Navarre, obsequy, Pope, pray, reform/reformation, sanctify, scripture, sin, soul, troth, unction, vice, and York.

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10; Deut. 22. 4–5, the Scribes and Pharisees say of the ‘woman . . taken in adultery, in the very act’, that ‘Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned’. 7). (B) Lear refers to a similar law when he says to the blinded Gloucester, ‘What was thy cause? / Adultery? / Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery? 109–13). 41). 40–1). (C) The English Reformer Becon, 1: 450, cites many ‘sentences out of’ Scripture ‘against fornication and adultery’; Vaux’s Catholic Catechism (1590a), sigs. E2v–E3r, discusses the many varieties of adultery.

1 169–71). 33–4). 48–50). (C) Shaheen (1999), 380–1, points out that Judas actually said ‘All hail’ only in the York mystery play; in most of the English Bibles available to Shakespeare, he greeted Christ, ‘Hail, Master’. See The English Hexapla (1841), Matt. 49; The Agony and the Betrayal (1963), 243. ALL-HALLOND EVE The evening before all-hallowmass; Halloween. 124–6). ALL-HALLOWMASS (A) All Saints’ or All Hallows’ Day, 1 November, sometimes called Hallowmass because a mass would usually mark this day sacred to all the saints of the Church, living and dead.

The Cambridge Puritan Perkins says that ‘the essential property [of “justifying faith”] ‘is to apprehend Christ with his benefites, and to assure the verie conscience thereof’ (1597b), 249. Trapp ([1656], Exp. ’ (B) The best example of this usage in Shakespeare occurs in MND, where the rationalistic Duke Theseus twice in the same speech condescendingly prefers things comprehended to things apprehended. 2–6). 18–20). Advocates of the imagination, like Erasmus in The Praise of 22 ARCHDEACON Folly or St Paul in his First Epistle to the Corinthians, might find praise in such blame; sometimes the hot imagination can shape and grasp ‘more than cool reason ever comprehends’, be it in matters of romantic or religious faith.

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