Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. -- .
Trade Review‘The Renaissance of Emotion seeks to broaden our frame of reference, locating early modern emotions within a wider cultural framework of religion, philosophy, politics, and rhetoric.’
Katharine A. Craik, Oxford Brookes University, Renaissance Quarterly 69.4 (Winter 2016)
‘An important collection of essays that can stand as a survey-sample of some of the best work currently being done in the field. The thoughtful and carefully argued introduction offers a historiographical overview of the rise to prominence of the emotions in philosophy, psychology and literary studies, challenges some of the established critical orthodoxies, and opens some avenues into new research.’
Freya Sierhuis (York), Bücherschau
‘Every well-crafted essay has something genuinely original to offer and which is indeed taking discussion forward.’
Lesel Dawson is a senior lecturer at in the department of English at Bristol University. Eric Langley is a lecturer in the department of English at University College London, Early Theatre 20.1
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Richard Meek and Erin Sullivan
Part I – The theology and philosophy of emotion
1: The passions of Thomas Wright: Renaissance emotion across body and soul – Erin Sullivan
2: ‘The scripture moveth us in sundry places’: framing biblical emotions in the Book of Common Prayer and the Homilies – David Bagchi
3: ‘This was a way to thrive’: Christian and Jewish eudaimonism in The Merchant of Venice – Sara Coodin
4: Robert Burton, perfect happiness and the visio dei – Mary Ann Lund
Part II – Shakespeare and the language of emotion
5: Spleen in Shakespeare’s comedies – Nigel Wood
6: ‘Rue even for ruth’: Richard II and the imitation of sympathy – Richard Meek
7: What’s happiness in Hamlet? – Richard Chamberlain
Part 3 – The performance of emotion
8: ‘They that tread in a maze’: movement as emotion in John Lyly – Andy Kesson
9: (S)wept from power: two versions of tyrannicide in Richard III – Ann Kaegi
10: The affective scripts of early modern execution and murder – Frederika Bain
11: Discrepant emotional awareness in Shakespeare – R. S. White and Ciara Rawnsley
Afterword – Peter Holbrook
Index
