Shakespeare's Promises Carol P. Christ Their duties were to build

Their duties were to build military facilities and airfields overseas

autonomous democracy

often depicted as mutually exclusive

somewhat critically neglected in the past

not only in Russia but anywhere it is currently practiced

Shakespeare's Promises Carol P. Christ Their duties were to buildOaths, vows, contracts, and promises are among the most momentous actions human beings can perform, in art as well as life. Although virtually ignored by literary theorists, these obligations motivate plots, test characters, provide rhetorical occasions, structure ironies, and open thematic horizons. According to William Kerrigan, they had particular importance for Shakespeare, who wrote at a decisive moment in the history of promising, toward the end