Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature

Virginia Lee Strain

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Virginia Lee Strain, Loyola University, Chicago

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: April 2021
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9781474416306

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Theory

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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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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Series Editor’s Preface
pp vii-ix

Dedication
pp x-x

Introduction
pp 1-31

1 - ‘Perpetuall Reformation’ in Book V of Spenser’s Faerie Queene
pp 32-62

Part I - Perfection
pp 63-64

2 - Snaring Statutes and the General Pardon in the Gesta Grayorum
pp 65-97

3 - Legal Excess in John Donne’s ‘Satyre V’
pp 98-130

Part II - Execution
pp 131-132

4 - The Assize Circuitry of Measure for Measure
pp 133-170

5 - The Winter’s Tale and the Oracle of the Law
pp 171-198

Bibliography
pp 199-217

Index
pp 218-229

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