Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England : : Drama, Law, and Emotion / / Penelope Geng.
The sixteenth century was a turning point for both law and drama. Relentless professionalization of the common law set off a cascade of lawyerly self-fashioning – resulting in blunt attacks on lay judgment. English playwrights, including Shakespeare, resisted the forces of legal professionalization...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Note on Texts
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: A Double Obligation
- Chapter One From Assise to the Assize at Home
- Chapter Two Judicature in Crisis: Henry IV, Part 2
- Chapter Tree Neighbourliness and the Coroner’s Inquest in English Domestic Tragedies
- Chapter Four Repairing Community: Empathetic Witnessing in King Lear
- Chapter Five Communal Shaming and the Limitations of Legal Forms: Henry VI, Part 2 and Macbeth
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index