Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England

Chapter 1 Introduction: Renaissance, Law and Literature

Chapter 2 Amici curiae: Lawful Manhood and Other Juristic Performances in Renaissance England

Chapter 3 Instigating Treason: the Life and Death of Henry Cuffe, Secretary

Chapter 4 ‘Unmanly Indignities’: Adultery, Evidence and Judgement in Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness

Chapter 5 ‘She has that in her belly will dry up your ink’: Femininity as Challenge in the ‘Equitable Drama’ of John Webster

Chapter 6 Renaissance Tool Abuse and the Legal History of the Sudden

Chapter 7 Taking Liberties: George Wither’s A Satyre, Libel and the Law

Chapter 8 Freedom of Speech, Libel and the Law in Early Stuart England

Chapter 9 John Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism and the Seventeenth-Century Tithes Controversy