The various prayers in King Lear, Hamlet, Henry V, Cymbeline, and The Tempest are complex. If Shakespeare inherited medieval Catholic forms of prayer he preserved them in altered form, with considerable ambiguity. They provided useful dramatic forms, although any explicit appeal to Catholics in the audience seems unlikely. Since the English Reformation was still in the process of transition, Shakespeare's prayers would have appealed to his "Protestant" as well as Catholic audience. Against the overstated claim that to look for Shakespeare's religious affiliation is an impossible task and finally futile, I argue that the various inadvertent allusions to Catholic forms of prayer, and their sometimes ambiguous expression, are precisely what we would expect of a Catholic working under the Elizabethan and Jacobean regimes. The various prayers in King Lear, Hamlet, Henry V, Cymbeline, and The Tempest are complex. If Shakespeare inherited medieval Catholic forms of prayer he preserved them in altered form, with considerable ambiguity. They provided useful dramatic forms, although any explicit appeal to Catholics in the audience seems unlikely. Since the English Reformation was still in the process of transition, Shakespeare's prayers would have appealed to his "Protestant" as well as Catholic audience. Against the overstated claim that to look for Shakespeare's religious affiliation is an impossible task and finally futile, I argue that the various inadvertent allusions to Catholic forms of prayer, and their sometimes ambiguous expression, are precisely what we would expect of a Catholic working under the Elizabethan and Jacobean regimes.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2018
توصيف ظاهري
577-597
عنوان
Religion and the Arts
شماره جلد
22/5
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5292
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
censorship
اصطلاح موضوعی
Cymbeline
اصطلاح موضوعی
Hamlet
اصطلاح موضوعی
Henry V
اصطلاح موضوعی
indulgence
اصطلاح موضوعی
intercession
اصطلاح موضوعی
King Lear
اصطلاح موضوعی
purgatory
اصطلاح موضوعی
The Tempest
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