Shakespeare in Church: Reflection on an Intertextual Liturgy Based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
‘Seeing More Clearly with the Eyes of Love’, a new ‘Liturgy for Voices’ based on Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is an experimental piece of intertextuality. It interleaves extensive quotations from the play with elements of the western Christian liturgy and five new poems by contempor...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Ecclesial practices
Year: 2017, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 199-217 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture RC Liturgy |
| Further subjects: | B
Liturgy
drama
intertextuality
love
Shakespeare
symbolic action
congregational response
seeing clearly
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | ‘Seeing More Clearly with the Eyes of Love’, a new ‘Liturgy for Voices’ based on Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is an experimental piece of intertextuality. It interleaves extensive quotations from the play with elements of the western Christian liturgy and five new poems by contemporary poets. The paper argues that the sequence of the liturgy has parallels with four moments in a Shakespearean comedy: gathering, disturbance, reconciliation and dismissal. Further, in this particular play two quotations from the New Testament appear at climactic points, and these are marked in the liturgy by two symbolic actions which give opportunity for congregational engagement. Data relating to congregational response has been collected after three productions of the liturgy, and is analysed to discover the effect of integrating theatrical and liturgical drama on the theme of love, so contributing to a larger project on love of God and neighbour as a common ground for religions. |
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| ISSN: | 2214-4471 |
| Contains: | In: Ecclesial practices
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22144471-00402003 |