The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
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The Invention of Suspicion by Lorna Hutson Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Lorna Hutson argues that changes in the English justice system in the sixteenth century towards greater participation (by JPs and jurors) had a decisive impact on English Renaissance drama. Her nuanced and closely researched book sheds new light on much of what we take for granted about character and plot in Shakespearean drama. Publisher Description The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive impact on the development of English Renaissance drama. These changes gradually made evidence evaluation a popular skill: justices of peace and juries were increasingly required to weigh up the probabilities of competing narratives of facts. At precisely thesame time, English dramatists were absorbing, from Latin legal rhetoric and from Latin comedy, poetic strategies that enabled them to make their plays more persuasively realistic, more 'probable'. The result ofthis enormously rich conjunction of popular legal culture and ancient forensic rhetoric was a drama in which dramatis personae habitually gather evidence and 'invent' arguments of suspicion and conjecture about one another, thus prompting us, as readers and audience, to reconstruct this 'evidence' as stories of characters' private histories and inner lives. In this drama, people act in uncertainty, inferring one another's motives and testing evidence for their conclusions. As well asoffering an overarching account of how changes in juridical epistemology relate to post-Reformation drama, this book examines comic dramatic writing associated with the Inns of Court in the overlooked decades ofthe 1560s and 70s. It argues that these experiments constituted an influential sub-genre, assimilating the structures of Roman comedy to current civic and political concerns with the administration of justice. This sub-genre's impact may be seen in Shakespeare's early experiments in revenge tragedy, history play and romance comedy, in Titus Andronicus, Henry VI and The Comedy of Errors , as well as Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, Bartholomew Fair andThe Alchemist. The book ranges from mid-fifteenth century drama, through sixteenth century interludes to the drama of the 1590s and 1600s. It draws on recent research by legal historians, and on a range of legal-historical sources in printand manuscript. Author Biography 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 by OUP 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 (Routledge, 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 EnglishLiterature at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Details ISBN 0199212430 ISBN-13 9780199212439 Title The Invention of Suspicion Author Lorna Hutson Format Hardcover Year 2007 Pages 392 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:137015690; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
