The unheard prayer : : religious toleration in Shakespeare's drama / / by Joseph Sterrett.
Titus shoots his arrows bearing petitions for justice to the gods; Claudius asks ‘what form of prayer can serve my turn?’; Lear wishes he could crack the vault of heaven with his prayers. Again and again, Shakespeare dramatises the scenario of the unheard prayer, in which the one who prays does so f...
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Sterrett, Joseph. The unheard prayer : religious toleration in Shakespeare's drama / by Joseph Sterrett. Religious toleration in Shakespeare's drama Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012. 1 online resource (223 p.) text txt computer c online resource cr Studies in religion and the arts ; v. 6 Description based upon print version of record. English Preliminary Material -- 1 Here Our Prayer: Oppositional Praying in Titus Andronicus -- 2 “Behold the window of my heart”—Poems and Unheard Prayers in Love’s Labour’s Lost -- 3 Outpraying Prayers in Richard II -- 4 Confessing Claudius: Sovereignty, Fraternity and Isolation at the Heart of Hamlet -- 5 An Economy of Prayer: All’s Well That Ends Well -- 6 “Thou Pray’st Thy Gods in Vain”: King Lear -- 7 “Such a Peace”: Answered Prayer in Shakespeare’s “Late Plays” -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. Titus shoots his arrows bearing petitions for justice to the gods; Claudius asks ‘what form of prayer can serve my turn?’; Lear wishes he could crack the vault of heaven with his prayers. Again and again, Shakespeare dramatises the scenario of the unheard prayer, in which the one who prays does so full well in the knowledge that no one is listening, interested, or even there at all. The scenario is keyed to the anxieties that surrounded the act of praying itself, so full as it was with controversy, the centrepiece of sectarian dispute over what was good and bad religion. This study reads the unheard prayer scenario as itself an appeal for a vision of tolerance, unobtainable perhaps, but nevertheless desired and imagined. Includes bibliographical references and index. Prayer in literature. Religion in literature. Religious tolerance in literature. Reconciliation in literature. Toleration in literature. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Religion. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Political and social views. 90-04-23005-X Studies in Religion and the Arts 6. |
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Preliminary Material -- 1 Here Our Prayer: Oppositional Praying in Titus Andronicus -- 2 “Behold the window of my heart”—Poems and Unheard Prayers in Love’s Labour’s Lost -- 3 Outpraying Prayers in Richard II -- 4 Confessing Claudius: Sovereignty, Fraternity and Isolation at the Heart of Hamlet -- 5 An Economy of Prayer: All’s Well That Ends Well -- 6 “Thou Pray’st Thy Gods in Vain”: King Lear -- 7 “Such a Peace”: Answered Prayer in Shakespeare’s “Late Plays” -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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