{"product_id":"the-end-of-satisfaction-9780801452741","title":"The End of Satisfaction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term \"satisfaction\" as used in dramas of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHirschfeld's readings are consistently imaginative and challenging. Her book is the product of wide reading and deep and sustained thinking and does enough to satisfy this reader.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kennth J.E. Graham * Early Theatre *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne mark of a good critical book is that it creates a minifield and brings together disparate scholarship into new connections. This characterizes Heather Hirschfield's new book, which coalesces around the term \"satisfaction.\" If the subject were only the satisfaction for sin discussed by theology, the result might be predictable. But Hirschfield connects theological satisfaction with an unexpected context, the Rolling Stones’ \"I can’t get no satisfaction,\" a playful connection that is, in fact, productive.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Dennis Taylor * Renaissance Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the book's achievment is that the questions it continually seems to elicit from the reader are as suprising as Hirshcfield's own argument is provocative.... \u003ci\u003eThe End of Satisfaction\u003c\/i\u003e makes a real contribution to our sense of how changing theologies of penitence were registered by the culture—and especially drama—of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.\u003c\/p\u003e -- William Junker * Comparative Drama *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Where's Satisfaction?\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"Adew, to all Popish satisfactions\": Reforming Repentance in Early Modern England\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Satisfactions of Hell: Doctor Faustus and the Descensus Tradition\u003cbr\u003e 3. Setting Things Right: The Satisfactions of Revenge\u003cbr\u003e 4. As Good as a Feast?: Playing (with) Enough on the Elizabethan Stage5. \"Wooing, wedding, and repenting\": The Satisfactions of\u003cbr\u003e Marriage in Othello and Love’s Pilgrimage\u003cbr\u003e Postscript: Where’s the Stage at the End of Satisfaction?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405141156183,"sku":"9780801452741","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801452741.jpg?v=1730488857","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-end-of-satisfaction-9780801452741","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}