Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness
ISBN: 9780801460623
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Shakespeare William 1564–1616 -- Tragicomedies; Forgiveness in literature; Penance in literature;

Tracing the changing speech patterns of confession and absolution in Shakespeare's work.


Sarah Beckwith is Professor of English and Professor and Chair of Theater Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings and Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays and editor of Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives .

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