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The Renaissance of Emotion : Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries.

Meek, Richard.

The Renaissance of Emotion : Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (289 pages)

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- Part I The theology and philosophy of emotion -- 1 The passions of Thomas Wright: Renaissance emotion across body and soul -- 2 'The Scripture moveth us in sundry places': framing biblical emotions in the Book of Common Prayer and the Homilies -- 3 'This was a way to thrive': Christian and Jewish eudaimonism in The Merchant of Venice -- 4 Robert Burton, perfect happiness and the visio dei -- Part II Shakespeare and the language of emotion -- 5 Spleen in Shakespeare's comedies -- 6 'Rue e'en for ruth': Richard II and the imitation of sympathy -- 7 What's happiness in Hamlet? -- Part III The politics and performance of emotion -- 8 'They that tread in a maze': movement as emotion in John Lyly -- 9 (S)wept from power: two versions of tyrannicide in Richard III -- 10 The affective scripts of early modern execution and murder -- 11 Discrepant emotional awareness in Shakespeare -- Afterword -- Index.

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

9780719098956


Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Electronic books.

PR428.E56 -- R46 2015eb

820.9/353

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