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The crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity.

Structures of feeling as well as structures of belief were transformed; there was a reformation of social emotions as well as a Reformation of faith.

As Steven Mullaney shows in 'The Reformation of Emotions in the Age of Shakespeare', Elizabethan popular drama played a significant role in confronting the uncertainties and unresolved traumas of Elizabethan Protestant England.

Shakespeare and his contemporaries, audiences as well as playwrights, reshaped popular drama into a new form of embodied social, critical, and affective thought.

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University of Chicago Press
022611709X / 9780226117096
eBook (Adobe Pdf, EPUB)
31/05/2015
English
225 pages
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