The invention of suspicion: law and mimesis in Shakespeare and renaissance drama
Hutson, Lorna
Lorna Hutson argues that changes in the English justice system in the sixteenth century towards greater participation (by JPS and jurors) had a decisive impact on English Renaissance drama. Her nuanced and closely researched book sheds new light on much of what we take for granted about character and plot in Shakespearean drama. INDICE: Preface; 1: From Penitence to Evidence: Drama and the Legal Reformation; 2: Rethinking Foucault: The Juridical Epistemology of English Renaissance Drama; 3: Judicial Narrative and Dramatic Mimesis; 4: From Intrigue to Detection: Transformations of Classical Comedy 1566-1594; 5: Forensic rhetoric on the Popular Stage, I: Shakespeare's Histories; 6: Forensic Rhetoric on the Popular Stage, II: Revenge Tragedy and Romantic Comedy in the 1590s; 7: Jonson's Justices and Shakespeare's Constables: Sexual Suspicion and the Evidential Plot; Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-969148-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 392
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés