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BL
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968174
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b722544
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Hutson, Lorna.
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| Title & Author
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The invention of suspicion : : law and mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama /\ Lorna Hutson.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2007.
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x, 382 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0199212430
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: 9780199212439
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0191707201
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9780191707209
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-376) and index.
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| Contents
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From penitence to evidence: drama and the legal reformation -- Rethinking Foucault: the juridical epistemology of English Renaissance drama -- Judicial narrative and dramatic mimesis -- From intrigue to detection: transformations of classical comedy, 1566-1594 -- Forensic rhetoric on the popular stage: Shakespeare's histories -- Forensic rhetoric in early revenge tragedy and early romantic comedy: Kyd, Lyly, and Shakespeare -- Johnson's justices and Shakespeare's constables: sexual suspicion and the evidential plot.
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"The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth-century which, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive impact on the development of English Renaissance drama. The book offers an overarching account of epistemological change since the Reformation: even elements of Renaissance drama which can seem to be 'remnants of the sacred' may be seen to be, crucially, evidential. The book also offers an entirely new account of the importance of experiments in probabilistic drama in the political circumstances of the 1560s and 70s. It argues that these resulted in a sub-genre of 'civic detective plots' which may be seen to underlie Shakespeare's early experiments in revenge tragedy, history play, and romance comedy, in Titus Andronicus, Henry VI, and The Comedy of Errors, as well as Jonson's Every Man in his Humour. The book ranges from mid-fifteenth-century drama, through sixteenth-century interludes to the drama of the 1590s. It draws on a wide range of legal-historical sources in print and manuscript."--Jacket.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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Shakespeare, William-- Recht.
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Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.
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Shakespeare, William.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600-- History and criticism.
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Forensic orations-- England-- History-- 16th century.
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Law and literature-- England-- History-- 16th century.
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Law in literature.
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Mimesis in literature.
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Suspicion in literature.
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Drama
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Drama-- englisches-- Recht-- Geschichte 16. Jh.
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Drama-- mittelenglisches-- Recht.
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Drama.
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Englisch.
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English drama-- Early modern and Elizabethan.
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Forensic orations.
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Forensische Linguistik.
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Law and literature.
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Law in literature.
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Mimesis in literature.
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Recht-- Drama-- englisches-- Geschichte 16. Jh.
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Recht-- Drama-- mittelenglisches.
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Rechtsprechung
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Rechtsprechung.
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Suspicion in literature.
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England.
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| Dewey Classification
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822.3093554
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| LC Classification
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PR658.L38H87 2007
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| NLM classification
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HI 3385rvk
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