Literature, politics, and law in Renaissance England / edited by Erica Sheen & Lorna Hutson.
For the last twenty years, new historicism has encouraged the analysis of Renaissance literary texts as performances of power and subjection. But there has been no critical debate about how the specific workings of English juridical power and knowledge might relate to literary and theatrical forms....
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2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Renaissance, law and literature / Erica Sheen, Lorna Hutson
- Amici curiae: lawful manhood and other juristic performances in Renaissance England / Peter Goodrich
- Instigating treason: the life and death of Henry Cuffe, Secretary / Alan Stewart
- 'Unmanly indignities': adultery, evidence and judgement in Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness / Subha Mukherji
- 'She has that in her belly will dry up your ink': femininity as challenge in the 'equitable drama' of John Webster / Ina Habermann
- Renaissance tool abuse and the legal history of the sudden / Luke Wilson
- Taking liberties: George Wither's A Satyre, libel and the law / Michelle O'Callaghan
- Freedom of speech, libel and the law in early Stuart England / David Colclough
- John Selden among the Quakers: antifeminism and the seventeenth-century tithes controversy / Marcus Nevitt
- Martyrdom in a merchant world: law and martyrdom in the restoration memoirs of Elizabeth Jekyll and Mary Love / Sue Wiseman.