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Shakespeare’s Common Prayers: The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age
By Swift, Daniel
- ISBN
- 978-0-19983-385-1
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
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Reviewed on September 1, 2012 | Literature
The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) was first published in 1549 during the English Reformation and is the source of such well-known phrases as “earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” and “speak now; or forever hold your peace.” Swift’s (English, Skidmore Coll.) contention that the BCP is Shakespeare’s “great forgotten source” may be a bit overblown—scholars have been documenting Shakespeare’s references to the prayer book fo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
