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Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England Edited by Erica Sheen and Lorna Hutson Language, Discourse, Society General Editors: Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe and Denise Riley Selected published titles: Elizabeth Cowie REPRESENTING THE WOMAN Cinema and Psychoanalysis Theresa de Lauretis TECHNOLOGIES OF GENDER Essays on Theory, Film and Fiction Mary Ann Doane THE DESIRE TO DESIRE The Woman’s Film of the 1940s Jane Gallop FEMINISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS The Daughter’s Seduction Peter Gidal UNDERSTANDING BECKETT A Study of Monologue and Gesture in the Works of Samuel Beckett Geoff Gilbert BEFORE MODERNISM WAS Modern History and the Constituency of Writing Piers Gray, edited by Colin MacCabe and Victoria Rothschild STALIN ON LINGUISTICS AND OTHER ESSAYS Stephen Heath, Colin MacCabe and Denise Riley (editors) THE LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE, SOCIETY READER Ian Hunter CULTURE AND GOVERNMENT The Emergence of Literary Education Jean-Jacques Lecercle DELEUZE AND LANGUAGE Jean-Jacques Lecercle and Denise Riley THE FORCE OF LANGUAGE Patrizia Lombardo CITIES, WORDS AND IMAGES Colin MacCabe JAMES JOYCE AND THE REVOLUTION OF THE WORD - 2011-03-24 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright Second edition Laura Mulvey VISUAL AND OTHER PLEASURES 10.1057/9780230597662 - Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England, Edited by Erica Sheen and Lorna Hutson Michael O’ Pray FILM, FORM AND PHANTASY Adrian Stokes and Film Aesthetics Denise Riley ‘AM I THAT NAME?’ Feminism and the Category of ‘Women’ in History Moustapha Safouan SPEECH OR DEATH? Language as Social Order: a Psychoanalytic Study Moustapha Safouan JACQUES LACAN AND THE QUESTION OF PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING (Translated and introduced by Jacqueline Rose) Erica Sheen and Lorna Hutson LITERATURE, POLITICS AND LAW IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND Stanley Shostak THE DEATH OF LIFE The Legacy of Molecular Biology Lyndsey Stonebridge THE DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENT British Psychoanalysis and Modernism James A. Snead, edited by Kara Keeling, Colin MacCabe and Cornel West RACIST TRACES AND OTHER WRITINGS European Pedigrees/African Contagions Raymond Tallis NOT SAUSSURE A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory Geoffrey Ward STATUTES OF LIBERTY The New York School of Poets Language, Discourse, Society Series Standing Order ISBN 0–333–71482–2 (outside North America only) Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-24 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. 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Law and literature–History–16th century–Congresses. 5. Law and literature–History–17th century–Congresses. 6. Renaissance–England–Congresses. 7. Politics in literature–Congresses. 8. Law in literature–Congresses. I. Sheen, Erica. II. Hutson, Lorna. III. Language, - 2011-03-24 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright discourse, society (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) PR428.P6L59 2004 820.9’3554’09031–dc22 2004051747 10987654321 14 13 1211 10 09 08 07 06 05 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham and Eastbourne 10.1057/9780230597662 - Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England, Edited by Erica Sheen and Lorna Hutson Contents List of Illustrations vi Notes on Contributors vii 1 Introduction: Renaissance, Law and Literature 1 Erica Sheen and Lorna Hutson 2 Amici curiae: Lawful Manhood and Other Juristic 23 Performances in Renaissance England Peter Goodrich 3 Instigating Treason: the Life and Death of Henry Cuffe, 50 Secretary Alan Stewart 4 ‘Unmanly Indignities’: Adultery, Evidence and 71 Judgement in Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness Subha Mukherji 5 ‘She has that in her belly will dry up your ink’: 100 Femininity as Challenge in the ‘Equitable Drama’ of John Webster Ina Habermann 6 Renaissance Tool Abuse and the Legal History of 121 the Sudden Luke Wilson 7 Taking Liberties: George Wither’s A Satyre, Libel and the Law 146 Michelle O’Callaghan 8 Freedom of Speech, Libel and the Law in Early Stuart England 170 David Colclough 9 John Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism and the 189 Seventeenth-Century Tithes Controversy Marcus Nevitt - 2011-03-24 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright 10 Martyrdom in a Merchant World: Law and Martyrdom in 209 the Restoration Memoirs of Elizabeth Jekyll and Mary Love Sue Wiseman Index 236 v 10.1057/9780230597662 - Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England, Edited by Erica Sheen and Lorna Hutson List of Illustrations 1 Gerlach Flicke, Gerlach Flicke and Henry Strangwish, 1554. 43 By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London 2 Richard Brathwaite, Acquaintance, from The English 45 Gentleman (1630) 3 Letter from William Covile to Bridget Edmunds 1 73 4 Letter from William Covile to Bridget Edmunds 2 74 5 Letter from William Covile to Bridget Edmunds 3 75 Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket i Tromso - PalgraveConnect - 2011-03-24 - PalgraveConnect Tromso i - licensed to Universitetsbiblioteket www.palgraveconnect.com material from Copyright vi 10.1057/9780230597662 - Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England, Edited by Erica Sheen and Lorna Hutson Notes on Contributors David Colclough is Lecturer in English at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the editor of John Donne’s Professional Lives (2003), and has recently completed a book on Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England. He is editing New Atlantis for the Oxford Francis Bacon. Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, New York. He is the author of Legal Discourse (1987), Languages of Law (1992), Oedipus Lex (1995), Law in the Courts of Love (1996), and editor most recently of Nietzsche and Legal Theory (forthcoming). His current projects include an essay on ‘Satirical Legal Studies’, a treatise on the family resemblances of law school deans, and further work on lex amicitia. Ina Habermann is Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Erlangen. She has published articles on Renaissance drama and gender and is the author of Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England (2003). She is presently at work on a study of cultural memory and British collective identity in the interwar period, drawing on literature, popular culture