R. S. White, White R. S.

Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging study of a concept which underpinned Renaissance literature and continues to absorb contemporary thinkers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9780521481427
• ISBN-10: 0521481422
• Artikelnr.: 23108282

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements: 1. Natural Law in history and Renaissance literature
2. The heritage of classical Natural Law
3. The reception of Natural Law in Renaissance England
4. Law and literature in sixteenth-century England
5. More's Utopia
6. 'Love is the fulfilling of the law': Arcadia and Love's Labour's Lost
7. 'Hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree': The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure
8. Shakespeare's The History of King Lear
9. Milton and Natural Law
Epilogue: Hobbes and the demise of classical Natural Law
Appendix: Aquinas on the right to own private property
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.