Re-reading early modern prayer as social act:  examples from Shakespeare

Joseph William Sterrett

doi:10.1111/lic3.12060

Re-reading early modern prayer as social act: examples from Shakespeare

School of Communication and Culture - English

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Abstract

Literary criticism is increasingly interested in prayer as a cultural and literary mode. This article proposes a theoretical framework for reading prayer as a performance, as an act governed by community conventions with effects in the social world. Drawing upon groundbreaking work by Marcel Mauss and Hans Georg Gadamer, and citing critical reading of Shakespeare’s King Lear, The Tempest, and Hamlet, I show how prayer can be read as an act defined by real and imagined audiences while retaining individual self expression.

Original language	English
Journal	Literature Compass
Volume	10
Issue	6
Pages (from-to)	496-507
Number of pages	11
ISSN	1741-4113
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12060
Publication status	Published - Jun 2013

Keywords

Prayer
Mauss
Gadamer
Shakespeare
King Lear
The Tempest
Hamlet
Performance

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