The End of Satisfaction by Heather Hirschfeld
Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term satisfaction as used in dramas of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.Hirschfeld's readings are consistently imaginative and challengingHer book is the product of wide reading and deep and sustained thinking and does enough to satisfy this reader.
-- Kennth J.E. Graham * Early Theatre *One 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.
-- Dennis Taylor * Renaissance Quarterly *Part 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.... The End of Satisfaction 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.
-- William Junker * Comparative Drama *Heather Hirschfeld is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Joint Enterprises: Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801452741 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801452740 |
| Title | The End of Satisfaction |
| Author | Heather Hirschfeld |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 2014-04-17 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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