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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2009
      26 October 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511483813
      9780521850353
      9780521117302
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511483813
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.645kg, 314 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
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    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.

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    "the book rewards careful attention, frequently eliciting insights so striking that one wonders how they escaped notice until now." - John D. Schaeffer, Northern Illinois University, Renaissance Quarterly

    "this volume adds an important new perspective to Renaissance studies in its concentration on the nexus between law and literature, from a historical point of view." - Daniela Carpi, University of Verona

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