{"product_id":"the-end-of-satisfaction-drama-and-repentance-in-the-age-of-shakespeare-hardback-9780801452741","title":"The End of Satisfaction; Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare (Hardback) 9780801452741","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe End of Satisfaction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDrama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHeather Hirschfeld (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801452741\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 April 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 1 halftone - 1 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHirschfeld'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.\u003c\/p\u003e - Kennth J.E. Graham (Early Theatre) \u003cp\u003eOne 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 new book, which coalesces around the term \"satisfaction.\" If the subject were only the satisfaction for sin discussed by theology, the result might be predictable. But Hirschfield connects theological satisfaction with an unexpected context, the Rolling Stones' \"I can't get no satisfaction,\" a playful connection that is, in fact, productive.\u003c\/p\u003e - Dennis Taylor (Renaissance Quarterly) \u003cp\u003ePart of the book's achievment is that the questions it continually seems to elicit from the reader are as suprising as Hirshcfield's own argument is provocative.... \u003ci\u003eThe End of Satisfaction\u003c\/i\u003e makes a real contribution to our sense of how changing theologies of penitence were registered by the culture—and especially drama—of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.\u003c\/p\u003e - William Junker (Comparative Drama)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe End of Satisfaction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term \"satisfaction\" during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e 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). \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHirschfeld'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 \u003ci\u003eDr. Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Revenger's Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Othello\u003c\/i\u003e; considers the doctrinal and generic importance of lesser-known plays including \u003ci\u003eEnough Is as Good as a Feast\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Love's Pilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e; and opens new avenues into the study of literature and repentance in early modern England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Where's Satisfaction?\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"Adew, to all Popish satisfactions\": Reforming Repentance in Early Modern England\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Satisfactions of Hell: Doctor Faustus and the Descensus Tradition\u003cbr\u003e 3. Setting Things Right: The Satisfactions of Revenge\u003cbr\u003e 4. As Good as a Feast?: Playing (with) Enough on the Elizabethan Stage5. \"Wooing, wedding, and repenting\": The Satisfactions of\u003cbr\u003e Marriage in Othello and Love's Pilgrimage\u003cbr\u003e Postscript: Where's the Stage at the End of Satisfaction?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52541785899288,"sku":"9780801452741","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-end-of-satisfaction-drama-and-repentance-in-the-age-of-shakespeare-hardback-9780801452741","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}