Introduction: Reading the Early Modern Passions PART I. EARLY MODERN EMOTION SCRIPTS 1. Against the Rule of Reason: Praise of Passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert - Richard Strier 2. Commotion Strange: Passion in Paradise Lost - Michael Schoenfeldt 3. Poses and Passions: Mona Lisa's Closely Folded Hands - Zirka Z. Filipczak 4. Compassion in the Public Sphere of Milton and King Charles - John Staines PART II. HISTORICAL PHENOMENOLOGY 5. Melancholy Cats, Lugged Bears, and Early Modern Cosmology: Reading Shakespeare's Psychological Materialism Across the Species Barrier - Gail Kern Paster 6. English Mettle - Mary Floyd-Wilson 7. Hearing Green - Bruce Smith 8. Humoral Knowledge and Liberal Cognition in Davenant's Macbeth - Katherine Rowe 9. Five Pictures of Pathos - Gary Tomlinson PART III. DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES 10. The Passions and the Interests in Early Modern Europe: The Case of Guarini's Il Pastor fido - Victoria Kahn 11. Sadness in The Faerie Queene - Douglas Trevor 12. Par Accident: The Public Work of Early Modern Theater - Jane Tylus 13. Strange Alteration: Physiology and Psychology from Galen to Rabelais - Timothy Hampton Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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