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Title:

Prayer and performance in early modern English literature : gesture, word, and devotion / edited by Joseph William Sterrett.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xii, 275 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Religion and literature--England--History--16th century.
Religion and literature--England--History--17th century.
Religion and culture--England--History--16th century.
Religion and culture--England--History--17th century.
Prayer--England--History--16th century.
Prayer--England--History--17th century.
Religion in literature.
Reformation--England.
English literature--Early modern.
Prayer.
Reformation.
Religion and culture.
Religion and literature.
Religion in literature.
England.
1500-1700
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Authors:

Sterrett, Joseph, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-269) and index.

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.

ISBN:

1108429726
9781108429726

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1037883724

LCCN:

2018014873

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)