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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyler, Bernadette (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Colección:Corpus juris (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Temas:
1600-1699
Theater > Political aspects > England > History > 17th century.
Clemency in literature.
Pardon > England > History > 17th century.
Pardon.
English drama (Tragicomedy) > 17th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Law and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Political plays, English > History and criticism.
Politics in literature.
Théâtre > Aspect politique > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Tragicomédie anglaise > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Droit et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Théâtre politique anglais > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Clemency in literature
English drama (Tragicomedy)
Law and literature
Pardon
Political plays, English
Politics and literature
Politics in literature
Theater > Political aspects
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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.

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