Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature / / Virginia Lee Strain.
The first study of legal reform and literature in early modern EnglandThis book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the re...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Introduction
- 1. ‘Perpetuall Reformation’ in Book V of Spenser’s Faerie Queene
- Part I: Perfection
- 2. Snaring Statutes and the General Pardon in the Gesta Grayorum
- 3. Legal Excess in John Donne’s ‘Satyre V’
- Part II: Execution
- 4. The Assize Circuitry of Measure for Measure
- 5. The Winter’s Tale and the Oracle of the Law
- Bibliography
- Index