Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows

In Kerrigan John (ed.), Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 167, 2009 Lectures. pp. 61 (2011)
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This chapter presents the text of a lecture on oaths and vows in the works William Shakespeare given at the British Academy's 2009 Shakespeare Lecture. This text aims to rectify scholarly neglect of the Shakespeare's excessive use of oaths and vows in his plays. Using philosophical and stage-related arguments, it highlights Shakespeare's awareness of the paradoxes of oath-taking and vowing and their potency in performance.

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10.5871/bacad/9780197264775.003.0003

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