Justice, women, and power in English Renaissance drama [electronic resource] / edited by Andrew Majeske and Emily Detmer-Goebel.
Contributor(s): Majeske, Andrew J | Detmer-Goebel, Emily | ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Madison ; Teaneck : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009Description: 193 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism | English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism | Justice in literature | Women in literature | Law and literature -- History -- 16th century | Law and literature -- History -- 17th century | Power (Social sciences) in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 822/.309355 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-183) and index.
Performative subversions: Portia, language, and the law in the merchant of Venice / Andrew Majeske and Emily Detmer-Goebel -- Proceed in justice: narratives of marital betrayal in the winter's tale / Kathryn R. Finin -- Poisoned justice: passion and politics in the winter's tale / Cristina Leon Alfar -- The trials of Mary Stuart: anxious circulations in John Webster's drama / Catherine E. Thomas -- Forensic performances: evidentiary narrative in Arden of Faversham / Carol Blessing -- Shakespeare's bed-tricks: finding justice in lies? / Cheryl Dudgeon -- What is yours is mine: sexual and social complementarity in the trial scenes of measure for measure / Emily Detmer-Goebel -- Striking a deal: Portia's trial strategy in Shakespeare's merchant of Venice / David Evett.
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