Shakespeare'S Common Prayers: The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan age [Audiobook] download free by Daniel Swift
- Listen audiobook: Shakespeare'S Common Prayers: The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan age
- Author: Daniel Swift
- Release date: 2012/6/28
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780199838561
- Rating: 7.82 of 10
- Votes: 503
- Review by: Clayton Mckinley
- Review rating: 7.86 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/27
- Duration: 3H44M38S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-05
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA Lossless, MP3, MPEG4, FLAC, WAV, WMA (compression ZIP, ARC, CBC, 7-ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M52S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 prayerbook'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 sanctificationtempered 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: British & Irish History, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights, Literary Studies: General, Christian Prayerbooks, Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 35.08 USD
- Dimensions: 150x216x25mm
- Weight: 439.98g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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