Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: Renaissance, Law and Literature....Pages 1-22
 Amici curiae: Lawful Manhood and Other Juristic Performances in Renaissance England....Pages 23-49
Instigating Treason: the Life and Death of Henry Cuffe, Secretary....Pages 50-70
‘Unmanly Indignities’: Adultery, Evidence and Judgement in Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness ....Pages 71-99
‘She has that in her belly will dry up your ink’: Femininity as Challenge in the ‘Equitable Drama’ of John Webster....Pages 100-120
Renaissance Tool Abuse and the Legal History of the Sudden ....Pages 121-145
Taking Liberties: George Wither’s A Satyre, Libel and the Law....Pages 146-169
Freedom of Speech, Libel and the Law in Early Stuart England....Pages 170-188
John Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism and the Seventeenth-Century Tithes Controversy....Pages 189-208
Martyrdom in a Merchant World: Law and Martyrdom in the Restoration Memoirs of Elizabeth Jekyll and Mary Love....Pages 209-235
Back Matter....Pages 236-242