John Kerrigan

Gebundenes Buch

Shakespeare's Binding Language

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

John Kerrigan was brought up in Liverpool. After studying at Oxford he went to a lectureship at Cambridge, where he is Professor of English 2000 and a Fellow of St John's College. He has published on many subjects, from classical drama through Renaissance literature to modern British and Irish poetry. Among his books are an edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint (1986), Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (1996), and Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 (2008). He has lectured in many parts of the world, and writes for the TLS and the London Review of Books. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1039g
• ISBN-13: 9780198757580
• ISBN-10: 0198757581
• Artikelnr.: 43172521