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Shakespeare's common prayers : the Book of common prayer and the Elizabethan age / Daniel Swift.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swift, Daniel, 1977-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and literature--England--History--16th century.
- Religion and literature.
- Religion and literature--England--History--17th century.
- Prayer in literature.
- Religion in literature.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Religion.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 p.)
- Other Title:
- Book of common prayer and the Elizabethan age
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, political, and cultural importance. Within its rituals, prescriptions, proscriptions, and expressions were fought the religious wars of the age of Shakespeare. This diminutive book--continuously refor
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; A Note on Texts; PROLOGUE: A Revel with the Puritans; CHAPTER 1 The Only Book of the World; I: The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony; CHAPTER 2 For Better, for Worse; CHAPTER 3 Till Death Us Depart; II: The Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion; CHAPTER 4 The Quick and the Dead; CHAPTER 5 A Gap in Our Great Feast; III: The Ministration of Baptism to be Used in the Church; CHAPTER 6 Graceless Sacraments; CHAPTER 7 Above All Humane Power; EPILOGUE: Five or Six Words; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J
- KL; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-997703-8
- 1-283-57705-4
- 9786613889508
- 0-19-997693-7
- OCLC:
- 808367116
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