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Traces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society Broadens the scope of current law and literature debate into the area of consequence Offers analysis of both major and lesser-known literary texts, including Shakespeare Explores new primary resources on early modern criminal sanction Provides a new entry point for a wider examination of early modern culture Will appeal to students, academic specialists and to a more general audience with an interest in history of crime In a period in which some three hundred crimes were designated as felonies and punishable by death, a consideration of crime must inevitably lead to a preoccupation with consequences. Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law analyses contemporary literary and legal texts, including drama, poetry and commentaries on the law, and considers how 'proportionable' punishment was imagined in the early modern period and how the possibility of justice miscarried might influence that imagining.

Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law

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    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 16/08/2023
    ISBN13: 9781474454360, 978-1474454360
    ISBN10: 1474454364

    Number of Pages: 240

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    Traces the ways in which changing ideas about criminal sanction were reflected in and engaged with in early modern English society Broadens the scope of current law and literature debate into the area of consequence Offers analysis of both major and lesser-known literary texts, including Shakespeare Explores new primary resources on early modern criminal sanction Provides a new entry point for a wider examination of early modern culture Will appeal to students, academic specialists and to a more general audience with an interest in history of crime In a period in which some three hundred crimes were designated as felonies and punishable by death, a consideration of crime must inevitably lead to a preoccupation with consequences. Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law analyses contemporary literary and legal texts, including drama, poetry and commentaries on the law, and considers how 'proportionable' punishment was imagined in the early modern period and how the possibility of justice miscarried might influence that imagining.

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