Joseph Sterrett

Joseph Sterrett - Prayer and performance in early modern english literature

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• Early modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate
• With often violent results
• Central to these debates were questions of prayer
• Questions powerful enough to splinter the English church and to fuel a ferocious civil war
• This collection of thirteen newly commissioned essays traces the controversy and value given to the performance of prayer
• Through the body
• The spoken word and written text
• As well as its representation on stage
• Through close readings of the works of Christopher Marlowe
• William Shakespeare

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