The End of Satisfaction : Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
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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Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation. English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism. Repentance in literature. Desire in literature.