Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature

ISBN-13: 9781474416290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Virginia Lee Strain

Opis

This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. ‘Perpetuall Reformation’ in Book V of The 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.