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Shakespeare and the Play Scripts of Private Prayer (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare and the Play Scripts of Private Prayer (Hardcover)
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Early modern private prayer is skilled at narrative and drama. In
manuals and sermons on how to pray, collections of model prayers,
scholarly treatises about biblical petitions, and popular tracts
about life crises prompting calls to God, prayer is valued as a
powerful agent of change. Model prayers create stories about people
in distinct ranks and jobs, with concrete details about real-life
situations. These characters may act in play-lets, or appear in the
middle of difficulties, or voice a suite of petitions from all
sides of a conflict. Thinking of early modern private prayers as
dramatic dialogues rather than lyric monologues raises the question
of whether play-going and praying were mutually reinforcing
practices. Could dramatists deploying prayer on stage rely on
having audience members who were already expert at making up roles
for themselves in prayer, and who expected their petitions to have
the power to intervene in major events? Does prayer's focus on
cause and effect structure the historiography of Shakespeare's
Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II, Henry V, and Henry VIII?
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