TY - BOOK AU - Beecher,Donald AU - Cormack,Bradin AU - DeCook,Travis AU - Hanson,Elizabeth AU - Kreps,Barbara AU - Lee Strain,Virginia AU - Owens,Judith AU - Shuger,Debora AU - Staines,John D. AU - Stevens,Paul AU - Stretton,Tim AU - Stymeist,David AU - Visconsi,Elliott AU - Wallace,Andrew AU - Williams,Grant TI - Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature SN - 9781442690226 AV - PR428.L37 T35 2015eb U1 - 820.9/3554 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - English literature KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - Law and literature KW - England KW - History KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - Law in literature KW - DRAMA / Ancient & Classical KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Law and the Production of Literature: An Introductory Perspective --; 2. Paper Justice, Parchment Justice: Shakespeare, Hamlet, and the Life of Legal Documents --; 3. Conditional Promises and Legal Instruments in The Merchant of Venice --; 4. The “Snared Subject” and the General Pardon Statute in Late Elizabethan Coterie Literature --; 5. The Prison Diaries of Archbishop Laud --; 6. Criminal Biography in Early Modern News Pamphlets --; 7. Two-Sided Legal Narratives: Slander, Evidence, Proof, and Turnarounds in Much Ado About Nothing --; 8. No Boy Left Behind: Education and Distributive Justice in Early Modern England --; 9. Warding off Injustice in Book Five of The Faerie Queene --; 10. Torture and the Tyrant’s Injustice from Foxe to King Lear --; 11. The Literatures of Toleration and Civil Religion in Post-Revolutionary England --; 12. Obnoxious Satan: Milton, Neo-Roman Justice, and the Burden of Grace --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. From canonical poems and plays to crime pamphlets and educational treatises, the essays engage with the relevance and wide appeal of legal questions in order to understand how literature operated in the early modern period.Justice in its many forms – legal, poetic, divine, natural, and customary – is examined through insightful and innovative analyses of a number of texts, including The Merchant of Venice, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost. A major contribution to the growing field of law and literature, this collection offers cultural contexts, interpretive insights, and formal implications for the entire field of English Renaissance culture UR - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442690226 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442690226 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442690226/original ER -