Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature - Gesture, Word and Devotion

Examines the performative aspects of prayer and how they were represented in literature in early modern England.

Sommario

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.

Info autore

Joseph William Sterrett is Associate Professor of English Literature at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. He is the author of The Unheard Prayer: Religious Toleration in Shakespeare's Drama (2012) and the co-editor, with Peter Thomas, of Sacred Text-Sacred Space: Architectural, Literary and Spiritual Convergences in England and Wales (2011).

Riassunto

This collection of thirteen newly commissioned essays traces the controversy and value given to the performance of prayer in early modern England, through the body, the spoken word and written text, as well as its representation on stage.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joseph (Aarhus Universitet Sterrett
• Con la collaborazione di: Joseph Sterrett (Editore), Joseph (Aarhus Universitet Sterrett (Editore), Joseph William Sterrett (Editore), Sterrett Joseph (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108429726
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42972-6
• Pagine: 286
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica > Drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, History and Archaeology, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays