The Renaissance of emotion
Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Edited by Richard Meek, Erin Sullivan
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Author Biography
Richard Meek is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull Erin Sullivan is Lecturer and Fellow in the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
Manchester University Press
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date May 2017
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526116918 / 152611691X
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 16.98 GBP
- Pages288
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 x 138 mm
- Biblio NotesIntroduction - 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 III: 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