From social bond to contract: Debt in Rabelais and Shakespeare

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Volumn 35-36, Issue , 2002, Pages 28-36

  Margolies, David ^a  

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References (4)

1. FRANÇOIS RABELAIS, The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel, trans. J. M. Cohen (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965). All quotations from Rabelais are taken from chapters 3 and 4 of Book Three, pp. 295-301
2. RANDLE COTGRAVE, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (London: Adam Islip, 1611), sig. Z5v
3. All Shakespeare quotations are taken from the Alexander text (Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1994)
4. See Macbeth's soliloquy when he rehearses reasons for not killing Duncan, especially: "I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent but only / Vaulting ambition which o'er-leaps itself, / And falls on th'other" (I. 7. 25-8). The point is not at issue here but there seems to be a reluctance on Macbeth's part - perhaps for the sound psychological reason that he is resisting doing the deed