دانلود کتاب Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England (Language, Discourse, Society)

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Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 7
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
1 Introduction: Renaissance, Law and Literature......Page 10
2 Amici curiae: Lawful Manhood and Other Juristic Performances in Renaissance England......Page 32
3 Instigating Treason: the Life and Death of Henry Cuffe, Secretary......Page 59
4 ‘Unmanly Indignities’: Adultery, Evidence and Judgement in Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness......Page 80
5 ‘She has that in her belly will dry up your ink’: Femininity as Challenge in the ‘Equitable Drama’ of John Webster......Page 109
6 Renaissance Tool Abuse and the Legal History of the Sudden......Page 130
7 Taking Liberties: George Wither’s A Satyre, Libel and the Law......Page 155
8 Freedom of Speech, Libel and the Law in Early Stuart England......Page 179
9 John Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism and the Seventeenth-Century Tithes Controversy......Page 198
10 Martyrdom in a Merchant World: Law and Martyrdom in the Restoration Memoirs of Elizabeth Jekyll and Mary Love......Page 218
Index......Page 245