Law and Representation in Early Modern DramaCambridge 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. |
Inhalt
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 |
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adultery Anne Anne Sanders Anne's ASSI associated audience Bacon Bawdy Court bed-trick Bertram's Bracciano Cambridge University Library Cambridge University Press canon law Church Courts colour common law confession context contract Covile discourse distinction domestic doth drama dumb show Early Modern England Edmunds Elizabethan English evidence fiction Flamineo Frankford genre gestures God's hath Henry Swinburne Heywood's History household husband Ibid Inns Inns of Court John John Webster judgement judicial labyrinth lawyer literary literature litigation London marriage Matrimony metaphor Monticelso moral murder Murthers nature notion Oxford play play's plot proof providential Quintilian Ram Alley Record Office relation Renaissance representation rhetorical ring scene sense sexual Shakespeare signs social space specific spectacle Spousals stage Star Chamber suggests Swinburne Swinburne's symbolic synecdoche theatre theatrical Thomas tokens Tragedy Treatise trial truth Vittoria Warning Webster Wendoll White Devil widow wife Woman Killed women woord words
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