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The unheard prayer : religious toleration in Shakespeare's drama /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sterrett, Joseph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Studies in religion and the arts ; v. 6.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Here our prayer: oppositional praying in Titus Andronicus
  • "Behold the window of my heart", poems and unheard prayers in Love's labour's lost
  • Outpraying prayers in Richard II
  • Confessing Claudius: sovereignty, fraternity & isolation at the heart of Hamlet
  • An economy of prayer: All's well that ends well
  • "Thou pray'st thy gods in vain": King Lear
  • "Such a peace": answered prayer in Shakespeare's "late plays"
  • Conclusion.