Format:
x, 308 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen ;
,
24 cm.
ISBN:
9781501739330
,
1501739336
,
978-1-5017-3934-7
,
1-5017-3934-4
Series Statement:
Corpus juris : the humanities in politics and law
Content:
"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"--
Note:
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
Additional Edition:
Online version Meyler, Bernadette Theaters of pardoning Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781501739392
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Drama
;
Gnadenrecht
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
History
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