Shakespeare's Common Prayers
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Shakespeare's Common Prayers: The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age

Shakespeare's Common Prayers: The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age


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Shakespeare's Common Prayers revolves around Shakespeare's great overlooked source: the Book of Common Prayer, first published in 1549, whose appearance established Protestantism as the compulsory belief of the day. Written in a simple vernacular and incorporating familiar Catholic rituals, the book laid out the proper performance of church rites and services. And yet it was also highly disputed and constantly in flux; as Daniel Swift shows, the prayer book's history is one of passionately contested revision and of manic sensitivity to a verb or a turn of phrase. In the book's ambiguities and fierce contestations, Swift argues, William Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama: dispute over words and their practical consequences, hope for sanctification tempered by fear of simple meaninglessness, and the demand for improvised performance as a compensation for the failure of language to do what it appears to promise. Swift offers a study of Shakespeare at work: of his imagination at play upon a set of literary materials from which he both borrowed and learned, of his manipulation of the explosive chemistry of word and action that comprised early modern liturgy. Swift argues that the Book of Common Prayer mediates between the secular and the devotional, producing a tension that helps make Shakespeare's plays so powerful and exceptional. Tracing the prayer book's lines and motions through As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, and particularly Macbeth, Swift redirects scholarly attention to the religious heart of Shakespeare's work and time.

Table of Contents:
Prologue: A Revel with the Puritans Chapter 1: The only book in the world Part 1: The form of solemnization of Matrimony Chapter 2: For better, for worse Chapter 3: Till death us depart Part 2: The order for the administration of the Lord's Supper, or holy Communion Chapter 4: The Quick and the Dead Chapter 5: A gap in our great feast Part 3: The ministration of Baptism to be used in the Church Chapter 6: Graceless Sacraments Chapter 7: Above all Humane Power Epilogue: Five or Six Words  

About the Author :
Daniel Swift is a literary journalist and a professor of English at Skidmore College. He is the author of Bomber County: The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War, which was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize. His writings have appeared in Financial Times, The Nation, New York Times Book Review, and Times Literary Supplement.

Review :
"Groundbreaking, historically informed, elegantly written, and invaluable for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of Shakespeare and religion in Elizabethan England." --James Shapiro, author of 1599 and Contested Will "This is a brilliant book....If you have any interest at all in Shakespeare....you're in for a dazzling, if sometimes demanding, intellectual adventure." --Michael Dirda, ashington Post Book World "This is a work of deep, thorough scholarship. The book is extremely interesting and well-written. It's a model of a modern scholarly book." --Bardfilm "It made for perfect candlelight reading after lower Manhattan lost power." --Lorin Stein, Paris Review "This is a highly imaginative, accessibly written take on Shakespeare's use of a source of considerable significance." --Library Journal "Recommended." --Choice


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199838561
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 145 mm
  • No of Pages: 302
  • Sub Title: The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age
  • Width: 213 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199838569
  • Publisher Date: 22 Nov 2012
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 431 gr


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