Literature, Politics And Law In Renaissance

This collection features the work of both established and up-and-coming scholars in the UK and US, with contributors including Peter Goodrich, Lorna Hutson, Erica Sheen and David Colclough studying the period of the English Renaissance from the 1520s to the 1660s. This wide-ranging study, working on the edge of new historicism as well as book history, covers topics such as libel/slander and literary debate, legal textual production, authorship and the politics of authorial attribution and theater and the law.

Erica Sheen is at the University of Sheffield.

List of Illustrations

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Notes on Contributors

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1 Introduction: Renaissance, Law and Literature

1

(22)

Erica Sheen and Lorna Hutson

2 Amici curiae: Lawful Manhood and Other Juristic Performances in Renaissance England

23

(27)

Peter Goodrich

3 Instigating Treason: the Life and Death of Henry Cuffe, Secretary

50

(21)

Alan Stewart

4 'Unmanly Indignities': Adultery, Evidence and Judgement in Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness

71

(29)

Subha Mukherji

5 'She has that in her belly will dry up your ink': Femininity as Challenge in the 'Equitable Drama' of John Webster

100

(21)

Ina Habermann

6 Renaissance Tool Abuse and the Legal History of the Sudden

121

(25)

Luke Wilson

7 Taking Liberties: George Wither's A Satyre, Libel and the Law

146

(24)

Michelle O'Callaghan

8 Freedom of Speech, Libel and the Law in Early Stuart England

170

(19)

David Colclough

9 John Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism and the Seventeenth-Century Tithes Controversy

189

(20)

Marcus Nevitt

10 Martyrdom in a Merchant World: Law and Martyrdom in the Restoration Memoirs of Elizabeth Jekyll and Mary Love

209

(27)

Sue Wiseman

Index

236

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Literature, Politics And Law In Renaissance England

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