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Hirschfeld, Heather Anne, 1968- ,

The end of satisfaction drama and repentance in the age of Shakespeare / [electronic resource] : Heather Hirschfeld. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Where's satisfaction? -- Adew, to all popish satisfactions?: reforming repentance in early modern England -- Satisfactions of hell: Doctor Faustus and the descensus tradition -- Setting things right: the satisfactions of revenge -- As good as a feast? playing (with) enough on the Elizabethan stage -- Wooing, wedding, and repenting?: the satisfactions of marriage in Othello and Love's Pilgrimage -- Postscript: Where's the stage at the end of satisfaction? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN: 9780801470639

Subjects--Personal Names:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Criticism and interpretation.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Desire in literature.
Repentance in literature.
English drama--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR658.R44 / H57 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 822/.309353