Solon and Thespis
Subtitle: law and theater in the English Renaissance
By: edited by Dennis Kezar
Contributors: Kezar, Dennis, 1968-
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780268033132
Subjects: English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Law and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; Law and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; Law in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dennis Kezar; title: Jonson and the tribe of law.; title: Trial by theater : Jonson, Marston, and Dekker in the court of Parnassus / Matthew Greenfield; title: The law versus the marketplace in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair / Paul Cantor; title: Ben Jonson and London courtrooms / Frances Teague; title: Legal rhetoric and theatrical pressure.; title: "They took from me the use of mine own house" : land law in Shakespeare's Lear and Shakespeare's culture / Heather Dubrow; title: Sycorax's "thing" / Ernest B. Gilman; title: The witch of Edmonton and the guilt of possession / Dennis Kezar; title: Law staged and theory troubled.; title: "Paper bullets" : texts, lies, and censorship in early modern England / Debora Shuger; title: "So many books, so many rolls of ancient time" : the Inns of Court and Gorboduc / Karen J. Cunningham; title: The rich cabinet : Bacon, Chapman, and the culture of corruption / Luke Wilson