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

Imprint Madison ; Teaneck : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.

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Description 193 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-183) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
Justice in literature.
Women in literature.
Law and literature -- History -- 16th century.
Law and literature -- History -- 17th century.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Majeske, Andrew J.
Detmer-Goebel, Emily, 1961-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780838641699 (alk. paper)

 
    
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