The unheard prayer : religious toleration in Shakespeare's drama /
Sterrett, Joseph.
The unheard prayer : religious toleration in Shakespeare's drama / Religious toleration in Shakespeare's drama by Joseph Sterrett. - 1 online resource (xxxi, 187 pages) : illustrations. - Studies in religion and the arts, v. 6 1877-3192 ; . - Studies in Religion and the Arts 6. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248748. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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.
9789004230064
10.1163/9789004230064 DOI
2012018566
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Religion.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Political and social views.
Prayer in literature.
Religion in literature.
Religious tolerance in literature.
Reconciliation in literature.
Toleration in literature.
PR3011 / .S74 2012
822.3/3
The unheard prayer : religious toleration in Shakespeare's drama / Religious toleration in Shakespeare's drama by Joseph Sterrett. - 1 online resource (xxxi, 187 pages) : illustrations. - Studies in religion and the arts, v. 6 1877-3192 ; . - Studies in Religion and the Arts 6. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248748. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004230064
10.1163/9789004230064 DOI
2012018566
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Religion.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Political and social views.
Prayer in literature.
Religion in literature.
Religious tolerance in literature.
Reconciliation in literature.
Toleration in literature.
PR3011 / .S74 2012
822.3/3