Abstract
Words spread into diverse spaces. Such a word is ‘occupy’ along with its derivatives. It designates both possession and ownership, concepts explored in Shakespeare’s King John. Non-portable property is problematic: Can one ‘own’ enclosed commons, colonies designated as ‘plantations’, countries ( The Tempest)? Certain comedies are set in occupied lands ( Love’s Labour’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing). Could a Renaissance prince be emperor in his own realm at the time of imperial papacy? The word became so ‘ill sorted’ ( 2 Henry IV), after it came to designate sexual possession or rape, that it almost vanished for 150 years.
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