Subha Mukherji

Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of law and early modern English literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780521117302
• ISBN-10: 0521117305
• Artikelnr.: 26203877

Autorenporträt

Subha Mukherji is a lecturer at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of maps
Acknowledgements
Glossary
A note on the text
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. 'Of rings, and things, and fine array': marriage law, evidence and uncertainty
2. 'Unmanly indignities': adultery, evidence and judgement in Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness
3. Evidence and representation on 'the theatre of God's judgements': A Warning for Fair Women
4. 'Painted devils': image-making and evidence in The White Devil
5. Locations of law: spaces, people, play
6. 'When women go to law, the Devil is full of Business': women, law and dramatic realism
Epilogue. The Hydra head, the labyrinth and the waxen nose: discursive metaphors for law
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.