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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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Religion and the Arts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.