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Justice, Women, and Power in English Renaissance Drama.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780838643365
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Justice, Women, and Power in English Renaissance DramaDDC classification:
  • 822/.309355
LOC classification:
  • PR658.W6 -- J87 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Performative Subversions: Portia, Language, and the Law in The Merchant of Venice -- Proceed in justice": Narratives of Marital Betrayal in The Winter's Tale -- Poisoned Justice: Passion and Politics in The Winter's Tale -- The Trials of Mary Stuart: Anxious Circulations in John Webster's Drama -- Forensic Performances: Evidentiary Narrative in Arden of Faversham -- Shakespeare's Bed-tricks: Finding Justice in Lies? -- What Is Yours Is Mine": Sexual and Social Complementarity in the Trial Scenes of Measure for Measure -- Striking a Deal: Portia's Trial Strategy in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Performative Subversions: Portia, Language, and the Law in The Merchant of Venice -- Proceed in justice": Narratives of Marital Betrayal in The Winter's Tale -- Poisoned Justice: Passion and Politics in The Winter's Tale -- The Trials of Mary Stuart: Anxious Circulations in John Webster's Drama -- Forensic Performances: Evidentiary Narrative in Arden of Faversham -- Shakespeare's Bed-tricks: Finding Justice in Lies? -- What Is Yours Is Mine": Sexual and Social Complementarity in the Trial Scenes of Measure for Measure -- Striking a Deal: Portia's Trial Strategy in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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