Shakespeare's common prayers : the Book of common prayer and the Elizabethan age /

Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional la...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Swift, Daniel, 1977-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Religion.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Sources.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
1500-1699
Religion and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Religion and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Prayer in literature.
Religion in literature.
Religion et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Religion et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Prière dans la littérature.
Religion dans la littérature.
DRAMA > Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Religion.
Religion and literature.
England.
History.
Sources.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A note on texts
  • Prologue: a revel with the Puritans
  • The only book in the world
  • The form of solemnization of matrimony
  • For better, for worse
  • Till death us depart
  • The order for the administration of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion
  • The quick and the dead
  • A gap in our great feast
  • The ministration of baptism to be used in the church
  • Graceless sacraments
  • Above all humane power
  • Epilogue: five or six words.

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