Taking exception to the law : materializing injustice in early modern English literature / edited by Donald Beecher, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, and Grant Williams.

"Explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. From canonical poems and plays to crime pamphlets and educational treatises, the essays engage with the relevance and wide appeal of legal questions in o...

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Other Authors: Beecher, Donald (Editor), Wallace, Andrew, 1973- (Editor), Williams, Grant, 1965- (Editor), DeCook, Travis, 1976- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Law and the production of literature : an introductory perspective / Grant Williams
  • Paper justice, parchment justice : Shakespeare, Hamlet, and the life of legal documents / Bradin Cormack
  • Conditional promises and legal instruments in The merchant of Venice / Tim Stretton
  • "Snared subject" and the general pardon statute in late Elizabethan coterie Literature / Virginia Lee Strain
  • Prison diaries of Archbishop Laud / Debora Shuger
  • Criminal biography in early modern news pamphlets / David Stymeist
  • Two-sided legal narratives : slander, evidence, proof, and turnarounds in Much ado about nothing / Barbara Kreps
  • No boy left behind : education and distributive justice in early modern England / Elizabeth Hanson
  • Warding off injustice in book five of The faerie queene / Judith Owens
  • Torture and the tyrant's injustice from Foxe to King Lear / John D. Staines
  • Literatures of toleration and civil religion in post-revolutionary England / Elliott Visconsi
  • Obnoxious Satan : Milton, neo-Roman justice, and the burden of grace / Paul Stevens.