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1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) |
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Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Thanksgiving; Introduction: The Power of Performance in Prayer, Now and Then; Chapter 1 Prayer, Bodily Ritual and Performative Utterance: Bucer, Calvin and the Book of Common Prayer; Chapter 2 The Tradition of High Church Prayer in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 3 Performed Prayer and Sixteenth-Century Non-Conformism; Chapter 4 Enter Mercury, Sleeping: Delivering Prayers on the Early Modern Stage; Chapter 5 Prayer, Performance and Community in Early Modern Drama |
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Chapter 6 Playing at Prayer: The Spiritual Failure of Performance in HamletChapter 7 Prayer and Musical Performance: The Verse Anthem; Chapter 8 The Protestant Diary and the Act of Prayer; Chapter 9 Prayer in Context: The Dynamics of Worship in Donne's Encænia Sermon (1623); Chapter 10 'Your Suit is Granted': Performing Prayer in Early Modern English Poetry; Chapter 11 'The Royal Actor': King Charles I and the Performance of Prayer; Chapter 12 Vaughan's Devotional Prose as Political Act and Prayer; Chapter 13 'The Spirit of Prayer Inspired': Invocation as Prayer in Milton's Poetic Imagination |
| Summary |
Early modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questions of prayer, questions powerful enough to splinter the English church and to fuel a ferocious civil war. This collection of thirteen newly commissioned essays traces the controversy and value given to the performance of prayer, through the body, the spoken word and written text, as well as its representation on stage. Through close readings of the works of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton and Henry Vaughan amongst others, this book examines the performative aspects of prayer in a range of literary modes. This broad range of study is expanded further with chapters focussing on the private religious diaries of men and women throughout the seventeenth century, and the convergence of music and prayer in the work of William Byrd |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Religion and culture -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Religion and culture -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Prayer -- England -- History -- 16th century
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Prayer -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Religion in literature.
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Reformation -- England.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Early modern
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Prayer
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Reformation
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Religion and culture
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Religion and literature
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Religion in literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sterrett, Joseph, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781108572392 |
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1108572391 |
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9781108555135 |
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1108555136 |
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9781108698535 |
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1108698530 |
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