Shakespeare's strangers and English law
Paul Raffield
Bok · Engelsk · 2023
| Omfang | xvii, 284 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Measure for Measure: Actors, Fornicators, and Other Transgressors of Law Introduction: 'cõmon Players of Enterludes' School of Abuse: Elizabethan Theatre and the Outlawed Actor Plague and Prejudice Frauds, Counterfeits, 'and measure still for measure' The Imprint of Law Legitimacy and the Image 2. The Comedy of Errors: Refugees, Immigrants, and the Revitalisation of London Immigration and the Imminence of Death Shakespeare and the French Shakespeare, Racial Tension, and the London Apprentices Xenophobia, Riots, and The Book of Sir Thomas More Classical Friendship and Christian Community in The Comedy of Errors Witchcraft, Sorcery, and the Scots Classicism (Plautus), Christianity (St Paul), and The Comedy of Errors 3. Troilus and Cressida: Greeks, Trojans, Honour, and the Market Law, Literature, and the Hellenic Tradition Revels and Renaissance at the Elizabethan Inns of Court The Earl of Essex, The Iliad, and Fin-de-Siècle English Law Troilus and Cressida and the Lawyers 4. The Merchant of Venice and the Strangeness of Law Venice, Shakespeare, and the Shifting Sands of Contract Law Societas, Consensio, and the Meaning of Mercy The Jew and the Law Excursus: 'Dark and Obscure' Allegory and the Xenophobic Dream of Common Law Act Five, Harmony, and the Discord of Law 5. King Lear, Monarchy, and the Injustice of Tragedy Justice, Jurisdictions, and the Politics of Power Nature and Natural Law Custom, Kings, And Lex Regia The English Monarchical Republic Image, Costume, and Kingship Afterword Bibliography Index.. - "Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a 'stranger' to English law in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period. The numbers of strangers increased dramatically in the late sixteenth century, as refugees fled religious persecution in continental Europe and sought sanctuary in Protestant England. In the context of this book, strangers are not only persons ethnically or racially different from their English counterparts, be they immigrants, refugees, or visitors. The term also includes those who transgress or are simply excluded by their status from established legal norms by virtue of their faith, sexuality, or mode of employment. Each chapter investigates a particular category of 'stranger'. Topics include the treatment of actors in late Elizabethan England and the punishment of 'counterfeits' (Measure for Measure); the standing of refugees under English law and the reception of these people by the indigenous population (The Comedy of Errors); the establishment of 'Troynovant' as an international trading centre on the banks of the Thames (Troilus and Cressida); the role of law and the state in determining the rights of citizens and aliens (The Merchant of Venice); and the disenfranchised, estranged position of the citizen in a dysfunctional society and an acephalous realm (King Lear)"--
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| Emner | Shakespeare, William , 1564-1616 - Knowledge - Law.
Law in literature. Law - History - Great Britain Outsiders in literature. Strangers in literature. |
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| ISBN | 9781509929849
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