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

ISBN-13: 9781108429726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 286 str.

Joseph Sterrett

Opis

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

Recenzje

'Here, a range of voices deliver fresh insights in concentrated bursts that make for stimulating reading.' William T. FitzGerald, Bunyan Studies

Spis treści

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.