| Description |
1 online resource (x, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: creativity in private prayers -- Techniques to compose private prayers -- Scripting a role for the speaker of private prayer: 2 and 3 Henry VI -- Discerning a response to private prayer: Richard III and Henry V -- The special case of royal private prayer: Henry VIII and Richard II -- Afterword: staging private prayer -- Appendix A: sample contents pages of printed private prayer books -- Appendix B: sample prayers of childbirth -- Appendix C: sample prayers on work |
| Summary |
Explores drama and private prayer from 1580 to 1640, when prayer was considered a dynamic, creative practice. It analyses moments in which private prayer was staged in Shakespeare's history plays to argue that private prayers are play scripts and to recognise how this understanding affects how prayers in the plays were played and received |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on November 24, 2020) |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Histories.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
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Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 gnd |
| Subject |
Prayer in literature.
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Chronicle plays of William Shakespeare
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Prayer in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192599278 |
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0192599275 |
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9780192599261 |
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0192599267 |
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9780191890208 |
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0191890200 |
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