The Renaissance of emotion ：Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Publication subTitle ：Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Author： Meek Richard; Sullivan Erin  

Publisher： Manchester University Press‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9780719098956

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780719090783

Subject： K5 European History

Keyword： 欧洲史

Language： ENG

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Description

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Chapter

The Renaissance of emotion

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Part I The theology and philosophy of emotion

1 The passions of Thomas Wright: Renaissance emotion across body and soul

2 ‘The Scripture moveth us in sundry places’: framing biblical emotions in the Book of Common Prayer and the Homilies

3 ‘This was a way to thrive’: Christian and Jewish eudaimonism in The Merchant of Venice

4 Robert Burton, perfect happiness and the visio dei

Part II Shakespeare and the language of emotion

5 Spleen in Shakespeare’s comedies

6 ‘Rue e’en for ruth’: Richard II and the imitation of sympathy

7 What’s happiness in Hamlet?

Part III The politics and performance of emotion

8 ‘They that tread in a maze’: movement as emotion in John Lyly

9 (S)wept from power: two versions of tyrannicide in Richard III

10 The affective scripts of early modern execution and murder

11 Discrepant emotional awareness in Shakespeare

Afterword

Index

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