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Theaters of intention drama and the law in early modern England

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  • "Early modern Britain witnessed a transformation in legal reasoning about human volition and intentional action, which contributed to new conventions and techniques for the theatrical representation of premeditated conduct. Theaters of Intention 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, the author considers the interplay between theatrical deliberation and legal dramatization of human intention. He analyzes such canonical plays as Hamlet, Timon of Athens, Dr Faustus, Bartholomew Fair and Othello alongside less familiar texts, including Jonson's Entertainment at Althorp, and the anonymous Nobody and Somebody. The final chapter examines the iconography of Nobody, an early modern equivalent of John Doe, and features some dozen illustrations of contemporary woodcuts, drawings, and engravings."

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  • "History"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"

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  • "Theaters of intention : drama and the law in early modern England"
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