Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare - Red Mist Rage Unmasked

Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigate the provenance of the notion of a 'crime of passion' - indicatively, wife-killing.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Honourable anger, moral warrants for murder – Glossing Titus Andronicus
2 Othello – ‘An honourable murderer, if you will’
3 ‘Unlucky deeds’ – Passion’s progress in the nineteenthcentury courts
4 Passions contained – ‘Othello’s crime was murder and nothing else’
5 Homicidal rage in ‘modern times’ – Passion unleashed
6 Red mist’ rage unmasked
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index


About the author

Adrian Howe is an Honorary Principal Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Summary

Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigate the provenance of the notion of a ‘crime of passion’ – indicatively, wife-killing.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Howe, Adrian (University of Melbourne Howe, Howe Adrian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032295183
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3229518-3
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Criminal law & procedure, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LAW / Gender & the Law, Politics & government, Gender & the law, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups, Social Law, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Law and society, gender issues, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Social law and Medical law