The Invention of Suspicion
Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
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- Hardcover
392 pages
- Release Date
13 December 2007
Summary
The Invention of Suspicion argues that changes in the English justice system during the sixteenth century profoundly impacted the development of English Renaissance drama. Due to the system’s participatory nature, the increased importance placed on evaluating evidence by justices of the peace and juries fostered a popular skill: weighing the probabilities of competing factual narratives.
Concurrently, English playwrights were incorporating poetic strategies from Latin legal rhetoric a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199212439 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199212430 |
| Author: | Lorna Hutson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 13 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 731g |
| Dimensions: | 242mm x 163mm x 28mm |
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an ingenious, original, thoroughly researched study Peter Holbrook, Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Lorna Hutson
Lorna Hutson was born in Germany to Scottish parents and was educated in San Francisco, Edinburgh, and Oxford. At Oxford she wrote a PhD thesis on Thomas Nashe which was published as Thomas Nashe in Context (1989). From 1985-1998 she was Lecturer and then Reader at Queen Mary College, London, and wrote The Usurer’s Daughter (1994). In 2001, as Professor of the University of California, Berkeley, she edited, with Victoria Kahn, Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe. She was the recipient, in 2004-5 of an award from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to write The Invention of Suspicion. She is currently Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
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