Shakespeare's Common Prayers The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age【電子書籍】[ Daniel Swift ]

＜p＞Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The ＜em＞Book of Common Prayer＜/em＞ 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 reformed and revised--was how that age defined itself. In ＜em＞Shakespeare's Common Prayers＜/em＞, Daniel Swift makes dazzling and original use of this foundational text, employing it as an entry-point into the works of England's most celebrated writer. Though commonly neglected as a source for Shakespeare's work, Swift persuasively and conclusively argues that the ＜em＞Book of Common Prayer＜/．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る