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

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

Hirschfeld, Heather

Hardcover

Series: Pretty Little Liars (eBook)

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 0801452740
ISBN13: 9780801452741
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Apr 17 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.23
Language: English

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 an unexamined measure of inward gratification rather than a finely nuanced standard of relational exchange--to the pressures on legal, economic, and marital discourses wrought by the Protestant rejection of the Catholic sacrament of penance (contrition, confession, satisfaction) and represented imaginatively on the stage. In so doing, it offers fresh readings of the penitential economies of canonical plays including Dr. Faustus, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello; considers the doctrinal and generic importance of lesser-known plays including Enough Is as Good as a Feast and Love's Pilgrimage; and opens new avenues into the study of literature and repentance in early modern England.

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