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

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

In The End of Satisfaction, Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term "satisfaction" during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Focusing on the term's significance as an organizing principle of Christian repentance, she exam...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Hirschfeld, Heather,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 1 halftone
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Where's Satisfaction?
  • 1. "Adew, to al Popish satisfactions": Reforming Repentance in Early Modern En gland
  • 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

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