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The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare
Steven Mullaney
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Description for The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare
Hardcover. Examining a variety of works, from revenge plays to Shakespeare's first history tetralogy and beyond, the author explores how this title not only exposed the faultlines of society on stage but also provoked playgoers in the audience to acknowledge all the differences they shared with one another. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
The crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity. Structures of feeling as well as structures of belief were transformed; there was a reformation of social emotions as well as a Reformation of faith. As Steven Mullaney shows in The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare, Elizabethan popular drama played a significant role in confronting the uncertainties and unresolved traumas of Elizabethan Protestant England. Shakespeare and his contemporaries-audiences as well as playwrights - reshaped popular drama into a new form of embodied social, critical, and affective thought. Examining a variety of ... Read more
The crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity. Structures of feeling as well as structures of belief were transformed; there was a reformation of social emotions as well as a Reformation of faith. As Steven Mullaney shows in The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare, Elizabethan popular drama played a significant role in confronting the uncertainties and unresolved traumas of Elizabethan Protestant England. Shakespeare and his contemporaries-audiences as well as playwrights - reshaped popular drama into a new form of embodied social, critical, and affective thought. Examining a variety of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226547633
SKU
V9780226547633
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Ref
99-15
About Steven Mullaney
Steven Mullaney is associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England.
Reviews for The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare
"The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare is a powerful and provocative meditation on the innovative cultural forms and emotional processes that emerged from the violent affective dislocations of memory, identity, and community of the English Reformation. Mullaney addresses issues of wide interest among scholars of early modern literature and culture through evocative readings of both familiar and ... Read more