TY - BOOK AU - Meek,Richard AU - Sullivan,Erin TI - The Renaissance of Emotion: Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries SN - 9780719098956 AV - PR428.E56 -- R46 2015eb U1 - 820.9/353 PY - 2015/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4083590 ER -