Shakespeare's imaginary constitution : late Elizabethan politics and the theatre of law / by Paul Raffield.
2010
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Title
Shakespeare's imaginary constitution : late Elizabethan politics and the theatre of law / by Paul Raffield.
Published
Oxford : Hart, 2010.
Call Number
PR3028 .R34 2010
ISBN
9781841139210 (hbk.)
1841139211 (hbk.)
1841139211 (hbk.)
Description
xv, 253 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)630453229
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Arts & Law Materials Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Arts & Law Materials Fund
Table of Contents
Preface
vii
Acknowledgements
ix
List of Illustrations
xv
Introduction
1
1.
̀Terras Astraea reliquit': Titus Andronicus and the Flight of Justice
18
I.
Law, Justice and the Exercise of Executive Power
18
II.
Late-Elizabethan Imperial Government and the Common Law
23
III.
Order, Harmony and Musicality
29
IV.
The Depiction of Troynovant
33
V.
Ritual, Religion and the Culture of Signs
37
VI.
Sacrifice, Tradition and Unwritten Law
42
2.
The Comedy of Errors and the Meaning of Contract
51
I.
Errors and Confusion, Disorder and Tumult
51
II.
The Promise: ̀Dictum Meum Pactum'?
55
III.
The Chain: Symbol of Commerce, Love and Law
59
IV.
Consideration, Conscience and the Gray's Inn Revels, 1594
65
V.
Breaking the Bonds of Servitude: Trade, Markets and the Law
73
3.
Reflections on the Art of Kingship: Richard II and the Subject of Law
82
I.
̀Landlord of England' or ̀deputy elected by the Lord'?
82
II.
The Commentaries or Reports of Plowden: Land and the Sacred Body of Law
88
III.
Through a Glass, Darkly: Treason, Law and the Discovery of Self
101
IV.
Theatre, Mimesis and the Counterfeiting of Monarchy
112
4.
The Poetic Imagination, Antique Fables and the Dream of Law
117
I.
Festival, Subversion and Misrule
117
II.
Satyrs, Fairies and the Oneiric Imagination
126
III.
Violence on the Edge
133
IV.
A Most Rare Vision
145
5.
The Ancient Constitution, Common Law and the Idyll of Albion: Law and Lawyers in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
153
I.
Kill all The Lawyers?
153
II.
Common Lawyers and the Pastoral Idyll
159
III.
The Education of a Prince and ̀the rusty curb of old Father Antic the law'
173
IV.
Patriarchal Symbolism and the Common Law
178
6.
The Congregation of the Mighty: the Juridical State and the Measure of Justice
182
I.
Prerogative Power and the Impression of Legitimacy
182
II.
The Divine Lawgiver and the Eye of the Law
191
III.
Religion, Conscience and Conflicts of Jurisdiction
204
Conclusion
218
Bibliography
223
Index
245