{"product_id":"the-end-of-satisfaction-drama-and-repentance-in-the-age-of-shakespeare-9780801452741","title":"The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Heather Hirschfeld\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe End of Satisfaction\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eDr. Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Revenger's Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOthello\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\u003eLove's Pilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e; and opens new avenues into the study of literature and repentance in early modern England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46499577102487,"sku":"9780801452741","price":8065.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801452741.webp?v=1769193372","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-end-of-satisfaction-drama-and-repentance-in-the-age-of-shakespeare-9780801452741","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}