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Theaters of pardoning

Title
Theaters of pardoning / Bernadette Meyler.
Author
Meyler, Bernadette
Publication
  • Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
x, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
Corpus juris : the humanities in politics and law
Uniform Title
Corpus juris (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 19-11327
ISBN
  • 9781501739330
  • 1501739336
  • 9781501739347
  • 1501739344
  • 9781501739392 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781501739408 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2019007604
OCLC
1089840147
Author
Meyler, Bernadette, author.
Title
Theaters of pardoning / Bernadette Meyler.
Publisher
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Corpus juris : the humanities in politics and law
Corpus juris (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1600-1699
Other Form:
Online version: Meyler, Bernadette. Theaters of pardoning. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501739392 (DLC) 2019011012
Research Call Number
JFE 19-11327
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