The end of satisfaction
Subtitle: drama and repentance in the age of Shakespeare
By: Heather Hirschfeld
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780801452741
Subjects: English drama; Criticism and interpretation; Repentance in literature; Desire in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Where's satisfaction?; title: Adew, to all popish satisfactions?: reforming repentance in early modern England; title: Satisfactions of hell: Doctor Faustus and the descensus tradition; title: Setting things right: the satisfactions of revenge; title: As good as a feast? playing (with) enough on the Elizabethan stage; title: Wooing, wedding, and repenting?: the satisfactions of marriage in Othello and Love's Pilgrimage; title: Postscript: Where's the stage at the end of satisfaction?; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.