Justice, women, and power in English Renaissance drama [electronic resource] / edited by Andrew Majeske and Emily Detmer-Goebel.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Madison ; Teaneck : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.Description: 193 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822/.309355 22
LOC classification:
  • PR658.W6 J87 2009eb
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Contents:
Performative subversions: Portia, language, and the law in the merchant of Venice / Andrew Majeske and Emily Detmer-Goebel -- Proceed in justice: narratives of marital betrayal in the winter's tale / Kathryn R. Finin -- Poisoned justice: passion and politics in the winter's tale / Cristina Leon Alfar -- The trials of Mary Stuart: anxious circulations in John Webster's drama / Catherine E. Thomas -- Forensic performances: evidentiary narrative in Arden of Faversham / Carol Blessing -- Shakespeare's bed-tricks: finding justice in lies? / Cheryl Dudgeon -- What is yours is mine: sexual and social complementarity in the trial scenes of measure for measure / Emily Detmer-Goebel -- Striking a deal: Portia's trial strategy in Shakespeare's merchant of Venice / David Evett.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-183) and index.

Performative subversions: Portia, language, and the law in the merchant of Venice / Andrew Majeske and Emily Detmer-Goebel -- Proceed in justice: narratives of marital betrayal in the winter's tale / Kathryn R. Finin -- Poisoned justice: passion and politics in the winter's tale / Cristina Leon Alfar -- The trials of Mary Stuart: anxious circulations in John Webster's drama / Catherine E. Thomas -- Forensic performances: evidentiary narrative in Arden of Faversham / Carol Blessing -- Shakespeare's bed-tricks: finding justice in lies? / Cheryl Dudgeon -- What is yours is mine: sexual and social complementarity in the trial scenes of measure for measure / Emily Detmer-Goebel -- Striking a deal: Portia's trial strategy in Shakespeare's merchant of Venice / David Evett.

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