The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare

(Cornell University Press) Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity of the term “satisfaction” during the 16th and early 17th centuries. She examines the way in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatized the consequences of the term’s re- or de-valuation in the process of Reformation doctrinal change by focusing on its significance as an organizing principle of Christian repentance. Hirschfeld is an associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee.