LEADER 03601nam 2200541 450 001 9910810612003321 005 20240110012112.0 010 $a1-4875-3744-1 010 $a1-4875-3743-3 024 7 $a10.3138/9781487537432 035 $a(CKB)5590000000447567 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6543616 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6543616 035 $a(OCoLC)1226772326 035 $a(DE-B1597)583297 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781487537432 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_108968 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000447567 100 $a20240110d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCommunal Justice in Shakespeare's England $eDrama, Law, and Emotion /$fPenelope Geng 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aToronto, Ontario :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (276 pages) 311 $a1-4875-0804-2 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tNote on Texts --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction: A Double Obligation --$tChapter One From Assise to the Assize at Home --$tChapter Two Judicature in Crisis: Henry IV, Part 2 --$tChapter Tree Neighbourliness and the Coroner's Inquest in English Domestic Tragedies --$tChapter Four Repairing Community: Empathetic Witnessing in King Lear --$tChapter Five Communal Shaming and the Limitations of Legal Forms: Henry VI, Part 2 and Macbeth --$tPostscript --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $a"The sixteenth century was a turning point for both law and drama. Relentless professionalization of the common law set off a cascade of lawyerly self-fashioning - resulting in blunt attacks on lay judgment. English playwrights, including Shakespeare, resisted the forces of legal professionalization by casting legal expertise as a detriment to moral feeling. They celebrated the ability of individuals, guided by conscience and working alongside members of their community, to restore justice. Playwrights used the participatory nature of drama to deepen public understanding of and respect for communal justice. In plays such as King Lear and Macbeth, lay people accomplish the work of magistracy: conscience structures legal judgment, neighbourly care shapes the coroner's inquest, and communal emotions give meaning to confession and repentance. An original and deeply sourced study of early modern literature and law, Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England contributes to a growing body of scholarship devoted to the study of how drama creates and sustains community. Penelope Geng brings together a wealth of imaginative and documentary archives - including plays, sermons, conscience literature, Protestant hagiographies, legal manuals, and medieval and early modern chronicles - proving that literature never simply reacts to legal events but always actively invents legal questions, establishes legal expectations, and shapes legal norms."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLaw in literature 606 $aLawyers in literature 606 $aLaw enforcement in literature 615 0$aLaw in literature. 615 0$aLawyers in literature. 615 0$aLaw enforcement in literature. 676 $a016.37 686 $acci1icc$2lacc 700 $aGeng$b Penelope$01677882 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810612003321 996 $aCommunal Justice in Shakespeare's England$94045131 997 $aUNINA