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

by Heather Anne Hirschfeld

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801452740
• ISBN13: 9780801452741
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher