Author: Penelope Geng
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487508042
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.
Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England
Author: Penelope Geng
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487508042
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487508042
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.
A History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales
Author: John Hostettler
Publisher: Waterside Press
ISBN: 1906534799
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
"An ideal introduction to the rich history of criminal justice charting all its main developments from the dooms of Anglo-Saxon times to the rise of the Common Law, struggles for political, legislative and judicial ascendency and the formation of the innovative Criminal Justice System of today."-back cover.
Publisher: Waterside Press
ISBN: 1906534799
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
"An ideal introduction to the rich history of criminal justice charting all its main developments from the dooms of Anglo-Saxon times to the rise of the Common Law, struggles for political, legislative and judicial ascendency and the formation of the innovative Criminal Justice System of today."-back cover.
Shakespeare's England
The Law in Shakespeare
Author: C. Jordan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230626343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law. Individual essays focus on such topics such as slander, revenge, and royal prerogative; these studies reveal the problems confronting early modern English men and women.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230626343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Leading scholars in the field analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law. Individual essays focus on such topics such as slander, revenge, and royal prerogative; these studies reveal the problems confronting early modern English men and women.
Shakespeare's England
Author: Charles Talbut Onions
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Murder in Shakespeare's England
Author: Vanessa McMahon
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852855369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A social history of how murder was committed, investigated, and punished in Stuart England examines a range of specific cases while discussing the seventeenth-century public's fascination with violence as reflected in its overflowing courtrooms and numerous crime-inspired works of art.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852855369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A social history of how murder was committed, investigated, and punished in Stuart England examines a range of specific cases while discussing the seventeenth-century public's fascination with violence as reflected in its overflowing courtrooms and numerous crime-inspired works of art.
Political Theologies in Shakespeare's England
Author: Debora Shuger
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230505406
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Shuger's study of Measure to Measure offers a sweeping reinterpretation of English political thought in the aftermath of the Reformation, one that focuses not on the tension between Crown and Parliament but on the relation of the sacred to the state.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230505406
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Shuger's study of Measure to Measure offers a sweeping reinterpretation of English political thought in the aftermath of the Reformation, one that focuses not on the tension between Crown and Parliament but on the relation of the sacred to the state.
The Description of England
Author: William Harrison
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486282756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Presents a portrait of daily life in Tudor England, including food and diet, laws, clothing, punishments for criminals, languages, lodging, and the appearance of the people.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486282756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Presents a portrait of daily life in Tudor England, including food and diet, laws, clothing, punishments for criminals, languages, lodging, and the appearance of the people.
Law-Making and Society in Late Elizabethan England
Author: David Dean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521521857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The years leading up to this book's publication had seen a re-assessment by historians of the Elizabethan parliament. David Dean's book contributed to this development by offering the first detailed account and analysis of the legislative impulses of the men attending the last six parliaments of Elizabeth's reign. Examining a wide range of social and economic issues, law reform, religious and political concerns, and affairs both national and local, Law-Making and Society in Late Elizabethan England addresses the importance of parliament both as a political event and as a legislative institution. David Dean draws on an array of local, corporate and personal archives, as well as parliamentary records, to reinterpret the legislative history of the period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521521857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The years leading up to this book's publication had seen a re-assessment by historians of the Elizabethan parliament. David Dean's book contributed to this development by offering the first detailed account and analysis of the legislative impulses of the men attending the last six parliaments of Elizabeth's reign. Examining a wide range of social and economic issues, law reform, religious and political concerns, and affairs both national and local, Law-Making and Society in Late Elizabethan England addresses the importance of parliament both as a political event and as a legislative institution. David Dean draws on an array of local, corporate and personal archives, as well as parliamentary records, to reinterpret the legislative history of the period.
The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare
Author: Robert Malcolm Smuts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199660840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
Rather than seeking to survey the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, the essays in the collection display a variety of perspectives, insights and methodologies found in current historical work that may also inform literary studies. In addition to Elizabethan and early seventeenth century polities, they examine such topics as the characteristics of the early modern political imagination; the growth of public controversy over religion and other issues duringthe period and ways in which this can be related to drama; attitudes about honour and shame and their relation to concepts of gender; histories of crime and murder; and ways in which changing attitudeswere expressed through architecture, printed images and the layout of Tudor gardens.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199660840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 849
Book Description
Rather than seeking to survey the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, the essays in the collection display a variety of perspectives, insights and methodologies found in current historical work that may also inform literary studies. In addition to Elizabethan and early seventeenth century polities, they examine such topics as the characteristics of the early modern political imagination; the growth of public controversy over religion and other issues duringthe period and ways in which this can be related to drama; attitudes about honour and shame and their relation to concepts of gender; histories of crime and murder; and ways in which changing attitudeswere expressed through architecture, printed images and the layout of Tudor gardens.