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The renaissance of emotion : understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries /

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early modern emotion has relied on a medical-historical approach, resulting in a picture of emotional experience that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Meek, Richard, 1975-, Sullivan, Erin (Cultural historian)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Colección:Manchester Shakespeare collection
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The theology and philosophy of emotion. The passion of Thomas Wright : Renaissance emotion across body and soul
  • 'The scripture moveth us in sundry places' : framing biblical emotions in the Book of common prayer and the Homilies
  • 'This was a way to thrive' : Christian and Jewish eudaimonism in The merchant of Venice
  • Robert Burton, perfect happiness and the visio dei
  • Shakespeare and the language of emotion. Spleen in Shakespeare's comedies
  • 'Rue e'en for ruth' : Richard II and the imitation of sympathy
  • What's happiness in Hamlet?
  • The politics and performance of emotion. 'They that tread in a maze' : movement as emotion in John Lyly
  • (S)wept from power : two versions of tyrannicide in Richard III
  • The affective scripts of early modern execution and murder
  • Discrepant emotional awareness in Shakespeare.