×


 x 

Shopping cart
Heather Hirschfeld - The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare - 9780801452741 - V9780801452741
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

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

€ 71.22
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.

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 examines the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatized the consequences of its re- or de-valuation in the process of Reformation doctrinal change. The Protestant theology of repentance, Hirschfeld suggests, underwrote a variety of theatrical plots "to set things right" in a world shorn of the prospect of "making enough" (satisfacere).

Hirschfeld’s semantic history traces today’s use of "satisfaction"—as ... Read more

Show Less

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801452741
SKU
V9780801452741
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Heather Hirschfeld
Heather Hirschfeld is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Joint Enterprises: Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater.

Reviews for The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare
Hirschfeld's readings are consistently imaginative and challenging. Her book is the product of wide reading and deep and sustained thinking and does enough to satisfy this reader.
Kennth J.E. Graham
Early Theatre
One mark of a good critical book is that it creates a minifield and brings together disparate scholarship into new connections. This characterizes Heather Hirschfield's ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!