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## The first study of legal reform and literature in early modern England This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law’s own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser’s __Faerie Queene__, the __Gesta Grayorum__, Donne’s ‘Satyre V’, and Shakespeare’s __Measure for Measure__ and __The Winter’s Tale__, Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character. ## Key Features * Reevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical research, bringing an interdiscip

Who reads Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature?

Author

Virginia Lee Strain

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press Ltd

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474416290

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction