Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Gesture, Word and Devotion
Redaktion: Sterrett, Joseph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108698535
• Artikelnr.: 56548659

Inhaltsangabe

1. Prayer, bodily ritual and performative utterance: Bucer, Calvin, and the
Book of Common Prayer Brian Cummings; 2. The tradition of High Church
Prayer in the seventeenth century Graham Parry; 3. Performed prayer and
sixteenth-century non-conformism Joseph William Sterrett; 4. Enter Mercury,
sleeping: delivering prayers on the early modern stage Chloe Preedy; 5.
Prayer, performance and community in early modern drama Alison Findlay; 6.
Playing at prayer: the spiritual failure of performance in Hamlet
Christopher Hodgkins; 7. Prayer and musical performance: the verse anthem
Simon Jackson; 8. The Protestant diary and the act of prayer Efrosini
Botonaki; 9. Prayer in context: the dynamics of worship in Donne's Encænia
Sermon (1623) Katrin Ettenhuber; 10. 'Your suit is granted': performing
prayer in early modern English poetry Helen Wilcox; 11. 'The Royal Actor':
King Charles I and the performance of prayer Robert Wilcher; 12. Vaughan's
devotional prose as political act and prayer Donald Dickson; 13. 'The
spirit of prayer inspired': invocation as prayer in Milton's poetic
imagination Noam Reisner.