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Justice, women, and power in English Renaissance drama / edited by Andrew Majeske and Emily Detmer-Goebel.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
- Justice in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Law and literature--History--16th century.
- Law and literature.
- Law and literature--History--17th century.
- Power (Social sciences) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison ; Teaneck : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Justice, Women, and Power in English Reniassance Drama is a collection of essays that explores the relationship of gender and justice as represented in English Renaissance drama. Many of the essays are concerned with interrogating the ways that women relied upon and/or reacted to the legal (and overarching political) systems in early modern England. Other essays examine issues involving the role of narrative, evidence, and gendered expectations about justice in the plays of this time period. An implicit concern of these essays is whether women were empowered or dis-empowered in this interaction with the legal/political system.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8386-4336-1
- OCLC:
- 694147623
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