Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama

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Cambridge University Press, 26.10.2006 - 291 Seiten
This examination of the relation between law and drama in Renaissance England establishes the diversity of their dialogue, encompassing critique and complicity, comment and analogy, but argues that the way in which drama addresses legal problems and dilemmas is nevertheless distinctive. As the resemblance between law and theatre concerns their formal structures rather than their methods and aims, an interdisciplinary approach must be alive to distinctions as well as affinities. Alert to issues of representation without losing sight of a lived culture of litigation, this study primarily focuses on early modern implications of the connection between legal and dramatic evidence, but expands to address a wider range of issues which stretch the representational capacities of both courtroom and theatre. The book does not shy away from drama's composite vision of legal realities but engages with the fictionality itself as significant, and negotiates the methodological challenges it posits.
 

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Introduction
1
Of rings and things and fine array marriage law evidence and uncertainty
17
Unmanly indignities adultery evidence an judgement in Hey woods A Woman Killed With Kindness
55
Evidence and representation on the theatre of God s judgements A Warning for Fair Women
95
Painted devils imagemaking and evidence in The White Devil
135
Locations of law spaces people play
174
When women go to Law the Devil is full of Business women law and dramatic realism
206
The Hydra head the labyrinth and the waxen nose discursive metaphors for law
233
Appendix
249
Bibliography
258
Index
287
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Subha Mukherji is a lecturer at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University.

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