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Law and representation in early modern drama /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Law and representation in early modern drama // Subha Mukherji.
其他題名:	Law & Representation in Early Modern Drama
作者:	Mukherji, Subha,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (xxi, 291 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	English drama - History and criticism. - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483813
ISBN:	9780511483813 (ebook)

Law and representation in early modern drama /
Mukherji, Subha,

Law and representation in early modern drama /Law & Representation in Early Modern DramaSubha Mukherji. - 1 online resource (xxi, 291 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

'Of rings, and things, and fine array': marriage law, evidence and uncertainty -- 'Unmanly indignities': Adultery, evidence and judgement in Heywood's A woman killed with kindness -- Evidence and representation on 'the theatre of God's judgements': A warning for fair women -- 'Painted devils': image-making and evidence in The white devil -- Locations of law: spaces, people, play -- 'When women go to law, the Devil is full of Business': women, law and dramatic realism.

This examination of the relation between law and drama in Renaissance England establishes the diversity of their dialogue, encompassing critique and complicity, comment and analogy, but argues that the way in which drama addresses legal problems and dilemmas is nevertheless distinctive. As the resemblance between law and theatre concerns their formal structures rather than their methods and aims, an interdisciplinary approach must be alive to distinctions as well as affinities. Alert to issues of representation without losing sight of a lived culture of litigation, this study primarily focuses on early modern implications of the connection between legal and dramatic evidence, but expands to address a wider range of issues which stretch the representational capacities of both courtroom and theatre. The book does not shy away from drama's composite vision of legal realities but engages with the fictionality itself as significant, and negotiates the methodological challenges it posits.

ISBN: 9780511483813 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

559694
English drama
--History and criticism.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

LC Class. No.: PR658.L38 / M85 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 822.30803554

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