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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780719098956
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Renaissance of EmotionDDC classification:
  • 820.9/353
LOC classification:
  • PR428.E56 -- R46 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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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.

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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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