Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: Renaissance, Law and Literature

   • Erica Sheen, Lorna Hutson

   Pages 1-22

3. Amici curiae: Lawful Manhood and Other Juristic Performances in Renaissance England

   • Peter Goodrich

   Pages 23-49

4. Instigating Treason: the Life and Death of Henry Cuffe, Secretary

   • Alan Stewart

   Pages 50-70

5. ‘Unmanly Indignities’: Adultery, Evidence and Judgement in Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness

   • Subha Mukherji

   Pages 71-99

6. ‘She has that in her belly will dry up your ink’: Femininity as Challenge in the ‘Equitable Drama’ of John Webster

   • Ina Habermann

   Pages 100-120

7. Renaissance Tool Abuse and the Legal History of the Sudden

   • Luke Wilson

   Pages 121-145

8. Taking Liberties: George Wither’s A Satyre, Libel and the Law

   • Michelle O’Callaghan

   Pages 146-169

9. Freedom of Speech, Libel and the Law in Early Stuart England

   • David Colclough

   Pages 170-188

10. John Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism and the Seventeenth-Century Tithes Controversy

    • Marcus Nevitt

    Pages 189-208

11. Martyrdom in a Merchant World: Law and Martyrdom in the Restoration Memoirs of Elizabeth Jekyll and Mary Love

    • Sue Wiseman

    Pages 209-235

12. Back Matter

    Pages 236-242

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This collection features the work of both established and up-and-coming scholars in the UK and US, with contributors including Peter Goodrich, Lorna Hutson, Erica Sheen and David Colclough studying the period of the English Renaissance from the 1520s to the 1660s. This wide-ranging study, working on the edge of new historicism as well as book history, covers topics such as libel/slander and literary debate, legal textual production, authorship and the politics of authorial attribution and theatre and the law.

• drama
• English
• English literature
• event
• freedom
• historicism
• history of literature
• John Selden
• liberty
• literature
• performance
• Quakers
• Renaissance
• restoration
• seventeenth century
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Sheffield, UK

  Erica Sheen

• University of St Andrews, UK

  Lorna Hutson

DAVID COLCLOUGH Lecturer in English, Queen Mary, University of London, UK PETER GOODRICH Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, New York, USA INA HABERMANN Lecturer in English Literature & Cultural Studies, University of Erlangen SUBHA MUKHERJI Lecturer and Director of Studies in English, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK MARCUS NEVITT Lecturer in English Literature, University of Sheffield, UK MICHELLE O'CALLAGHAN Senior Lecturer in English, Oxford Brookes University, UK ALAN STEWART Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, USA and Associate Director of the AHRB Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, London, UK LUKE WILSON Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University, USA SUE WISEMAN Teaches in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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