Shakespearean Tragedy and the Common Law: The Art of PunishmentShakespearean Tragedy and the Common Law examines punishment in Shakespeare's tragedies from the perspective of English Renaissance common law cases and theory. William Shakespeare's work is grounded conceptually in the «artificial» reason of common law as embodied by the great jurist of the age, Sir Edward Coke. Coke's legal rationale is sufficiently distinct from our own to suggest that a reasonable spectator in Renaissance England would interpret key elements of Shakespeare's art differently than we do today. Punishment, the sine qua non of these plays, is treated via a spectrum of legal theories: retribution, restitution, deterrence, and reform. Dr. Hawley's close examination of all ten plays and some fifty cases reveals how law, art, and philosophy shape Shakespeare's tragic vision. |
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... tragic ret- ribution transcending the revenge pattern so popular throughout the English Renaissance . I propose to treat complicity by examining the settled opinions of two Renaissance common law cases . I will then define where law and ...
... tragic ret- ribution transcending the revenge pattern so popular throughout the English Renaissance . I propose to treat complicity by examining the settled opinions of two Renaissance common law cases . I will then define where law and ...
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... tragic destiny that awaits him . He has one foot on earth and another in that realm where tragic heroes go , stretched as he is between juridi- cal and metaphysical law . The visual emblem of this extreme position is perhaps nowhere ...
... tragic destiny that awaits him . He has one foot on earth and another in that realm where tragic heroes go , stretched as he is between juridi- cal and metaphysical law . The visual emblem of this extreme position is perhaps nowhere ...
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... tragic world where simple revenge has had its day . Cyril Tourneur pens a Jacobean version of retribution theory in his Revenger's ... TRAGIC RETRIBUTION Othello has been interpreted in numerous 20 OTHELLO : COMPLICITY AND TRAGIC RETRIBUTION.
... tragic world where simple revenge has had its day . Cyril Tourneur pens a Jacobean version of retribution theory in his Revenger's ... TRAGIC RETRIBUTION Othello has been interpreted in numerous 20 OTHELLO : COMPLICITY AND TRAGIC RETRIBUTION.
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Complicity and Tragic Retribution | 11 |
Macbeth and the Reasonableness Standard in Law | 23 |
Copyright | |
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