Theaters of Intention

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Theaters of Intention
Author : Luke Andrew Wilson
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Language : English
Release Date : 03 May 2024
ISBN : 0804734143
Pages : 388 pages
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Early modern Britain witnessed a transformation in legal reasoning about human volition and intentional action. Examining the relation between law and theater in this period, this book reads plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and others to demonstrate how legal understanding of willful human action pervades 16th- and 17th-century English drama.

Theaters of Intention

Early modern Britain witnessed a transformation in legal reasoning about human volition and intentional action. Examining the relation between law and theater in this period, this book reads plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and others to demonstrate how legal understanding of willful human action pervades 16th- and 17th-century English drama.

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