Theaters of pardoning /
"This book aims to address the roots of pardoning's treatment in contemporary politics and uncover what new formulations of pardoning might contribute by examining what it calls "theaters of pardoning"--A form of tragicomedy--in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century Engla...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2019.
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Colección: | Corpus juris (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : theaters of pardoning
- Dramatic judgments : Measure for Measure, revenge, and the institution of the law
- Emplotting politics : James I and the "Powder Treason"
- The Laws of Candy : non-sovereign forgiveness and the generalizing of revenge
- From sovereignty to the state : the tragicomic clemency of Massinger's The Bondman
- Between royal pardons and acts of oblivion : the transitional justice of Cosmo Manuche and James Compton, Earl of Northampton
- Pardoning revolution : the 1660 Act of Oblivion and Hobbes's recentering of sovereignty
- Postlude : pardoning and liberal constitutionalism.