SHAKESPEARE AND THE GRAMMAR OF FORGIVENESS

First edition. Publisher's original beige cloth with black titles to the spine, with publisher's logo stamped in blind to the upper board, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh, with just a touch of rubbing to the head of the spine. The contents are clean throughout, and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine, lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper, which is without fading, loss, or tears.

'In tracing the changing speech patterns of confession and absolution, both in Shakespeare's work and Elizabethan and Jacobean culture more broadly, Beckwith reveals Shakespeare's profound understanding of the importance of language as the fragile basis of our relations with others. In particular, she shows that the post-tragic plays [...] are explorations of the new regimes and communities of forgiveness' (publisher's blurb).