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Book SynopsisThis book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the early eighteenth centuries.
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Preface: Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight
1. The third university 1450-1550: Law school or finishing school?: J. H. Baker
I. History: Education, Religion, Politics, and the Law
Introduction: education, religion, politics, and law at the early modern Inns of Court: Jayne Elisabeth Archer
2. The Inner Temple revels (1561-62) and the Elizabethan rhetoric of signs: Paul Raffield
3. Gospel, law, and ars prædicandi at the Inns of Court, c.1570-c.1640: Hugh Adlington
4. The Inns of Court and the common law mind: The case of James Whitelocke: Damian X. Powell
5. ‘The sinful history of mine own youth’: John Donne preaches at Lincoln’s Inn: Emma Rhatigan
6. Readers’ dinners and the culture of the early modern Inns of Court: Wilfrid Prest
II. Art, Architecture, and Gardens
Introduction: the art, architecture, and gardens of the early modern Inns of Court: Elizabeth Goldring
7. The halls of the Elizabethan and early Stuart Inns of Court: Mark Girouard
8. Professional pride and personal agendas: Tarnya Cooper
9. The evolution of the early gardens of the Inns of Court: Paula Henderson
10. The rebuilding of the Inns of Court, 1660-1700: Geoffrey Tyack
III. Literature and Drama
Introduction: literature and drama at the early modern Inns of Court: Sarah Knight
11. Lyric poetry at the early Elizabethan Inns of Court: Jessica Winston
12. The evidential plot: Shakespeare and Gascoigne at Gray’s Inn: Lorna Hutson
13. Locating The Comedy of Errors: Bradin Cormack
14. Law sports and the night of errors: Shakespeare at the Inns of Court: Richard McCoy
15. New light on drama, music, and dancing at the Inns of Court to 1642: Alan H. Nelson
Select bibliography of secondary criticism
Index
