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The End of Satisfaction : Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (255 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801470639
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The End of SatisfactionDDC classification:
  • 822.309353
LOC classification:
  • PR658.R44
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Where's Satisfaction? -- 1. "Adew, to al Popish satisfactions": Reforming Repentance in Early Modern England -- 2. The Satisfactions of Hell: Doctor Faustus and the Descensus Tradition -- 3. Setting Things Right: The Satisfactions of Revenge -- 4. As Good as a Feast?: Playing (with) Enough on the Elizabethan Stage -- 5. "Wooing, wedding, and repenting": The Satisfactions of Marriage in Othello and Love's Pilgrimage -- Postscript: Where's the Stage at the End of Satisfaction? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term "satisfaction" as used in dramas of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Where's Satisfaction? -- 1. "Adew, to al Popish satisfactions": Reforming Repentance in Early Modern England -- 2. The Satisfactions of Hell: Doctor Faustus and the Descensus Tradition -- 3. Setting Things Right: The Satisfactions of Revenge -- 4. As Good as a Feast?: Playing (with) Enough on the Elizabethan Stage -- 5. "Wooing, wedding, and repenting": The Satisfactions of Marriage in Othello and Love's Pilgrimage -- Postscript: Where's the Stage at the End of Satisfaction? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term "satisfaction" as used in dramas of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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