Theaters of intention : drama and the law in early modern England / Luke Wilson.
Theaters of intention : drama and the law in early modern England / Luke Wilson.
Theaters of intention : drama and the law in early modern England / Luke Wilson.
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.
Date
2000.
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N822.30935/1
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English
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x, 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Hamlet, Hales v Petit, and the Hysteresis of Action -- 2. Ben Jonson and the Law of Contract -- 3. Commodities and Contracts -- 4. Promissory Performances -- 5. Contracting Damnation -- 6. Nobodies That Matter.
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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.
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California
Date Published
2000.
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"Luke Wilson examines the relation between law and theater in this period, reading plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and others to demonstrate how legal understanding of willful human action pervades sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English drama." "Drawing on case law, legal treatises, parliamentary journals, and theatrical account books, t...
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Theaters of intention : drama and the law in early modern England / Luke Wilson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [324]-347) and index.
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N822.30935/1
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74Vv8j87VVPX
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0804734143 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804734141 (cloth : alk. paper)
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822.309355
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991014315389702626
