Shakespeare And The Play Scripts Of Private Prayer

Author : Ceri Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192599267
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Play Scripts of Private Prayer written by Ceri Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Author : Ceri Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192599275
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Play Scripts of Private Prayer written by Ceri Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Author : Joseph Sterrett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004230068
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unheard Prayer written by Joseph Sterrett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repeatedly Shakespeare dramatizes one who prays when no one is listening, interested, or even there. This study reads the scenario parallel to early modern anxieties surrounding prayer itself, suggesting a vision of religious syncretism Shakespeare imagines for his world.

Author : Richmond Samuel Howe Noble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780841462922
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Biblical Knowledge and Use of the Book of Common Prayer as Exemplified in the Plays of the First Folio written by Richmond Samuel Howe Noble and published by . This book was released on 1935-01-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Rees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Bible written by James Rees and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oppitz-Trotman George Oppitz-Trotman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474441742
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of English Revenge Tragedy written by Oppitz-Trotman George Oppitz-Trotman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the figures and materials of English tragedyKey FeaturesEstablishes a new approach to the relationship between historical performance and printed literatureComplicates the popular concept of metatheatreOffers boldly original readings of important English tragedies like Hamlet and The Spanish TragedyShows how our encounter with difficulty in the reading of revenge plays can be equivalent to an imaginative confrontation with the contradictions of early modern theatrical actionCharting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in theatrical materiality. It shows how the moral difficulty of revenge in plays like The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet and The Duchess of Malfi is inseparable from the difficulty of discerning human shapes in the theatre and on the page. Intervening in a wide range of current debates within early modern studies, Oppitz-Trotman argues that the origins of English tragic drama cannot be understood without considering how the common player appears in it.

Author : Daniel Swift
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199838569
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Common Prayers written by Daniel Swift and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and highly original exploration of Shakespeare's great overlooked source, the Book of Common Prayer

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry V written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521854482
Total Pages : 84 pages
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Download or read book Measure for Measure written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favorite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme the play is seen as a religious allegory, at the other it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege. Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching the play, the intensity and excitement offered by its dramatic rhythm, the reversals and surprises that shock the audience even to the end. The introduction describes the play's critical reception and stage history and how these have varied according to prevailing social, moral and religious issues, which were highly sensitive when Measure for Measure was written, and have remained so to the present day.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
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Download or read book As You Like it written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: