Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 10 IS - no. 6 T2 - Literature Compass SP - 496-507 ID - bbbc317 T1 - "Rereading Prayer as Social Act: Examples from Shakespeare" AU - Sterrett, Joseph PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - prayer LA - English AB - Using King Lear, Tempest, and Hamlet, proposes "a theoretical framework for reading prayer as a performance, as an act governed by community convention with effects in the social world" and "show how prayer can be read as an act defined by real and imagined audiences while retaining individual self expression." English summary, 496. ER -