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- Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature
- Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Thanksgiving
- Introduction The Power of Performance in Prayer, Now and Then
- Chapter 1 Prayer, Bodily Ritual and Performative Utterance
- Chapter 2 The Tradition of High Church Prayer in the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 3 Performed Prayer and Sixteenth-Century Non-Conformism
- Chapter 4 Enter Mercury, Sleeping
- Chapter 5 Prayer, Performance and Community in Early Modern Drama
- Chapter 6 Playing at Prayer
- Chapter 7 Prayer and Musical Performance
- Chapter 8 The Protestant Diary and the Act of Prayer
- Chapter 9 Prayer in Context
- Chapter 10 ‘Your Suit is Granted’
- Chapter 11 ‘The Royal Actor’
- Chapter 12 Vaughan’s Devotional Prose as Political Act and Prayer
- Chapter 13 ‘The Spirit of Prayer Inspired’
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2018
- Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature
- Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Thanksgiving
- Introduction The Power of Performance in Prayer, Now and Then
- Chapter 1 Prayer, Bodily Ritual and Performative Utterance
- Chapter 2 The Tradition of High Church Prayer in the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 3 Performed Prayer and Sixteenth-Century Non-Conformism
- Chapter 4 Enter Mercury, Sleeping
- Chapter 5 Prayer, Performance and Community in Early Modern Drama
- Chapter 6 Playing at Prayer
- Chapter 7 Prayer and Musical Performance
- Chapter 8 The Protestant Diary and the Act of Prayer
- Chapter 9 Prayer in Context
- Chapter 10 ‘Your Suit is Granted’
- Chapter 11 ‘The Royal Actor’
- Chapter 12 Vaughan’s Devotional Prose as Political Act and Prayer
- Chapter 13 ‘The Spirit of Prayer Inspired’
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English LiteratureGesture, Word and Devotion, pp. i - iiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018