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Theaters of pardoning
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"This book aims to address the roots of pardoning's treatment in contemporary politics and uncover what new formulations of pardoning might contribute by examining what it calls "theaters of pardon...
"This book aims to address the roots of pardoning's treatment in contemporary politics and uncover what new formulations of pardoning might contribute by examining what it calls "theaters of pardoning"--a form of tragicomedy--in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century England"--
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- Creator
- Bernadette Meyler
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019
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- Physical Details
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- x, 308 pages illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1501739336, 9781501739392, 1501739344, 1501739409, 1501739395, 9781501739330, 9781501739408, 9781501739347
- OCLC
- on1089840147, on1089839848
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : theaters of pardoning -- Dramatic judgments : Measure for Measure, revenge, and the institution of the law -- Emplotting politics : James I and the "Powder Treason" -- The Laws of Candy : non-sovereign forgiveness and the generalizing of revenge -- From sovereignty to the state : the tragicomic clemency of Massinger's The Bondman -- Between royal pardons and acts of oblivion : the transitional justice of Cosmo Manuche and James Compton, Earl of Northampton -- Pardoning revolution : the 1660 Act of Oblivion and Hobbes's recentering of sovereignty -- Postlude : pardoning and liberal constitutionalism
Subjects
- Theater -- Political aspects -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Clemency in literature.
- Pardon -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Pardon.
- English drama (Tragicomedy) -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
- Politics and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Law and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Political plays, English -- History and criticism.
- Politics in literature.