Religija kao diskurzivno oruđe u Richardu III.

The paper examines the use of religious language in Shakespeare’s Richard III. More precisely, it analyses how faith is invoked as a means of self-protection, but also to threaten and commit violence. Utterances by various secondary characters are used as examples to point to the diverse and specific ways Shakespeare utilizes the discourse of faith in Richard III. However, the majority of the paper focuses on the Duke of Gloucester (later crowned Richard III) as the character who shows the greatest skill in using religion as a discursive weapon, and his sudden inability to publicly proclaim his piety is highlighted as the culminating point of the play