Joseph William Sterrett is Associate Professor of English Literature at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. He is the author of The Unheard Prayer: Religious Toleration in Shakespeare's Drama (2012) and the co-editor, with Peter Thomas, of Sacred Text-Sacred Space: Architectural, Literary and Spiritual Convergences in England and Wales (2011).

• 1. Prayer, bodily ritual and performative utterance: Bucer, Calvin, and the Book of Common Prayer Brian Cummings; 2. The tradition of High Church Prayer in the seventeenth century Graham Parry; 3. Performed prayer and sixteenth-century non-conformism Joseph William Sterrett; 4. Enter Mercury, sleeping: delivering prayers on the early modern stage Chloe Preedy; 5. Prayer, performance and community in early modern drama Alison Findlay; 6. Playing at prayer: the spiritual failure of performance in Hamlet Christopher Hodgkins; 7. Prayer and musical performance: the verse anthem Simon Jackson; 8. The Protestant diary and the act of prayer Efrosini Botonaki; 9. Prayer in context: the dynamics of worship in Donne's Encænia Sermon (1623) Katrin Ettenhuber; 10. 'Your suit is granted': performing prayer in early modern English poetry Helen Wilcox; 11. 'The Royal Actor': King Charles I and the performance of prayer Robert Wilcher; 12. Vaughan's devotional prose as political act and prayer Donald Dickson; 13. 'The spirit of prayer inspired': invocation as prayer in Milton's poetic imagination Noam Reisner.

'Here, a range of voices deliver fresh insights in concentrated bursts that make for stimulating reading.' William T. FitzGerald, Bunyan Studies

Joseph William Sterrett is Associate Professor of English Literature at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. He is the author of The Unheard Prayer: Religious Toleration in Shakespeare's Drama (2012) and the co-editor, with Peter Thomas, of Sacred Text-Sacred Space: Architectural, Literary and Spiritual Convergences in England and Wales (2011).

• 1. Prayer, bodily ritual and performative utterance: Bucer, Calvin, and the Book of Common Prayer Brian Cummings; 2. The tradition of High Church Prayer in the seventeenth century Graham Parry; 3. Performed prayer and sixteenth-century non-conformism Joseph William Sterrett; 4. Enter Mercury, sleeping: delivering prayers on the early modern stage Chloe Preedy; 5. Prayer, performance and community in early modern drama Alison Findlay; 6. Playing at prayer: the spiritual failure of performance in Hamlet Christopher Hodgkins; 7. Prayer and musical performance: the verse anthem Simon Jackson; 8. The Protestant diary and the act of prayer Efrosini Botonaki; 9. Prayer in context: the dynamics of worship in Donne's Encænia Sermon (1623) Katrin Ettenhuber; 10. 'Your suit is granted': performing prayer in early modern English poetry Helen Wilcox; 11. 'The Royal Actor': King Charles I and the performance of prayer Robert Wilcher; 12. Vaughan's devotional prose as political act and prayer Donald Dickson; 13. 'The spirit of prayer inspired': invocation as prayer in Milton's poetic imagination Noam Reisner.

'Here, a range of voices deliver fresh insights in concentrated bursts that make for stimulating reading.' William T. FitzGerald, Bunyan Studies

Joseph William Sterrett is Associate Professor of English Literature at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. He is the author of The Unheard Prayer: Religious Toleration in Shakespeare's Drama (2012) and the co-editor, with Peter Thomas, of Sacred Text-Sacred Space: Architectural, Literary and Spiritual Convergences in England and Wales (2011).

• 1. Prayer, bodily ritual and performative utterance: Bucer, Calvin, and the Book of Common Prayer Brian Cummings; 2. The tradition of High Church Prayer in the seventeenth century Graham Parry; 3. Performed prayer and sixteenth-century non-conformism Joseph William Sterrett; 4. Enter Mercury, sleeping: delivering prayers on the early modern stage Chloe Preedy; 5. Prayer, performance and community in early modern drama Alison Findlay; 6. Playing at prayer: the spiritual failure of performance in Hamlet Christopher Hodgkins; 7. Prayer and musical performance: the verse anthem Simon Jackson; 8. The Protestant diary and the act of prayer Efrosini Botonaki; 9. Prayer in context: the dynamics of worship in Donne's Encænia Sermon (1623) Katrin Ettenhuber; 10. 'Your suit is granted': performing prayer in early modern English poetry Helen Wilcox; 11. 'The Royal Actor': King Charles I and the performance of prayer Robert Wilcher; 12. Vaughan's devotional prose as political act and prayer Donald Dickson; 13. 'The spirit of prayer inspired': invocation as prayer in Milton's poetic imagination Noam Reisner.

'Here, a range of voices deliver fresh insights in concentrated bursts that make for stimulating reading.' William T. FitzGerald, Bunyan Studies