Shakespeare and the Play Scripts of Private Prayer - Tapa dura

Sullivan, Ceri

 
9780198857310: Shakespeare and the Play Scripts of Private Prayer
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ISBN 10: 0198857314 ISBN 13: 9780198857310
Editorial: OUP Oxford, 2020

Sinopsis

Early modern private prayer is skilled at narrative and drama. In manuals and sermons on how to pray, collections of model prayers, scholarly treatises about biblical petitions, and popular tracts about life crises prompting calls to God, prayer is valued as a powerful agent of change. Model prayers create stories about people in distinct ranks and jobs, with concrete details about real-life situations. These characters may act in play-lets, or appear in the middle of difficulties, or voice a suite of petitions from all sides of a conflict. Thinking of early modern private prayers as dramatic dialogues rather than lyric monologues raises the question of whether play-going and praying were mutually reinforcing practices. Could dramatists deploying prayer on stage rely on having audience members who were already expert at making up roles for themselves in prayer, and who expected their petitions to have the power to intervene in major events? Does prayer's focus on cause and effect structure the historiography of Shakespeare's Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II, Henry V, and Henry VIII?

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Acerca del autor

Ceri Sullivan is a Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, and the author of five books about the literary features that structure early modern texts about religion, trade, bureaucracy, and rhetoric. She was educated at the University of Oxford, and was formerly a banking systems analyst in the City of London and an NGO worker in sub-Saharan Africa.


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Editorial
OUP Oxford
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0198857314
ISBN 13 
9780198857310
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
272
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