Prayer and performance in early modern English literature : gesture, word, and devotion

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Contributors = vii
• Thanksgiving = xi
• Introduction : The Power of Performance in Prayer, Now and Then / Joseph William Sterrett = 1
• 1 Prayer, Bodily Ritual and Performative Utterance : Bucer, Calvin and the Book of Common Prayer / Brian Cummings = 16
• 2 The Tradition of High Church Prayer in the Seventeenth Century / Graham Parry = 37
• 3 Performed Prayer and Sixteenth-Century Non-Conformism / Joseph William Sterrett = 50
• 4 Enter Mercury, Sleeping : Delivering Prayers on the Early Modern Stage / Chloe Kathleen Preedy = 65
• 5 Prayer, Performance and Community in Early Modern Drama / Alison Findlay = 84
• 6 Playing at Prayer : The Spiritual Failure of Performance in Hamlet / Christopher Hodgkins = 100
• 7 Prayer and Musical Performance : The Verse Anthem / Simon Jackson = 110
• 8 The Protestant Diary and the Act of Prayer / Effie Botonaki = 126
• 9 Prayer in Context : The Dynamics of Worship in Donne's Encomia Sermon (1623) / Katrin Ettenhuber = 141
• 10 `Your Suit is Granted" : Performing Prayer in Early Modern English Poetry / Helen Wilcox = 154
• 11 `The Royal Actor' : King Charles I and the Performance of Prayer / Robert Wilcher = 169
• 12 Vaughan's Devotional Prose as Political Act and Prayer / Donald R. Dickson = 181
• 13 `The Spirit of Prayer Inspired' : Invocation as Prayer in Milton's Poetic Imagination / Noam Reisner = 198
• Notes = 212
• Bibliography = 252
• Index = 270