Legal reform in English Renaissance literature /
This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2017.
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Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; 1 'Perpetuall Reformation' in Spenser's Faerie Queene 'Perpetuall Reformation' in Book V of Spenser's Faerie Queene; Part I Perfection; 2 Snaring Statutes and the General Pardon in the Gesta Grayorum; 3 Legal Excess in John Donne's 'Satyre V'; Part II Execution; 4 The Assize Circuitry of Measure for Measure; 5 The Winter's Tale and the Oracle of the Law; Bibliography; Index.