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Zusatztext an ingenious, original, thoroughly researched study Informationen zum Autor 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 English Literature at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: From Penitence to Evidence: Drama and the Legal Reformation 2: Rethinking Foucault: The Juridical Epistemology of English Renaissance Drama 3: Judicial Narrative and Dramatic Mimesis 4: From Intrigue to Detection: Transformations of Classical Comedy 1566-1594 5: Forensic rhetoric on the Popular Stage, I: Shakespeare's Histories 6: Forensic Rhetoric on the Popular Stage, II: Revenge Tragedy and Romantic Comedy in the 1590s 7: Jonson's Justices and Shakespeare's Constables: Sexual Suspicion and the Evidential Plot Bibliography ...
