A second relation from Hertford [[electronic resource] ] : containing the unjust proceedings of some called justice there at the general quarter sessions, upon the tryal of one and twenty innocent persons called Quakers for a pretended breach of the late act, with an account of the most material passages between the prisoners and the court, the 3d, 4th, and 5th dayes of the 8th moneth, 1664 : whereby it appears that meeting to worship God in spirit and truth is the great crime for which they are under so grievous a sentence, and that whatever is pretended by those that love the title of justice, yet in very deed they hate justice it self, as by their proceedings appears / / by W.S

• Record Nr.: UNISA996385979903316
• Autore: Smith William <d. 1673.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London, : s.n., 1673]
• Descrizione fisica: [2], 21 p
• Soggetti: Society of Friends - England; Persecution - England
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Page 15 misprinted 14, p. 20 misprinted 26.; Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0062

The end of satisfaction : drama and repentance in the age of Shakespeare / / Heather Anne Hirschfeld

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792152003321
• Autore: Hirschfeld Heather Anne <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, New York : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8014-7062-5; 0-8014-7063-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 822/.309353
• Soggetti: English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism; Repentance in literature; Desire in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Where's Satisfaction? -- 1. "Adew, to al Popish satisfactions": Reforming Repentance in Early Modern En gland -- 2. The Satisfactions of Hell: Doctor Faustus and the Descensus Tradition -- 3. Setting Things Right: The Satisfactions of Revenge -- 4. As Good as a Feast?: Playing (with) Enough on the Elizabethan Stage -- 5. "Wooing, wedding, and repenting": The Satisfactions of Marriage in Othello and Love's Pilgrimage -- Postscript: Where's the Stage at the End of Satisfaction? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In The End of Satisfaction, Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term "satisfaction" during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Focusing on the term's significance as an organizing principle of Christian repentance, she examines the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatized the consequences of its re- or de-valuation in the process of Reformation doctrinal change. The Protestant theology of repentance, Hirschfeld suggests, underwrote a variety of theatrical plots "to set things right" in a world shorn of the prospect of "making ; enough" (satisfacere).Hirschfeld's semantic history traces today's use of "satisfaction"-as an unexamined measure of inward gratification rather than a finely nuanced standard of relational exchange-to the pressures on legal, economic, and marital discourses wrought by the Protestant rejection of the Catholic sacrament of penance (contrition, confession, satisfaction) and represented imaginatively on the stage. In so doing, it offers fresh readings of the penitential economies of canonical plays including Dr. Faustus, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello; considers the doctrinal and generic importance of lesser-known plays including Enough Is as Good as a Feast and Love's Pilgrimage; and opens new avenues into the study of literature and repentance in early modern England.