There is no such sharp break between the Book of Common Prayer (1549) and earlier liturgical prose as there is between Tyndale and the medieval translators of Scripture. It is an anonymous and corporate work in which Cranmer bore the chief part, and it is almost wholly traditional in matter though some of the excellences [...]
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William Shakespeare’s Education
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In addition, regular attendance at church (a legal requirement which his father does not appear to have avoided until later), guaranteed prolonged exposure to the Book of Homilies (fairly dull), the Book of Common Prayer (rather more exciting) and, especially, the exhilarating language of the Bible in English – a resource that Shakespeare, like his [...]
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