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Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law


ISBN13: 9781841139210
Published: October 2010
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £95.00



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Through an examination of six plays by Shakespeare, the author presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the last decade of Elizabethan rule and their representation in poetic drama of the period.

The playhouses of London in the 1590s provided a distinctive forum for discourse and dissemination of nascent political ideas. Shakespeare exploited the unique capacity of theatre to humanise contemporary debate concerning the powers of the crown and the extent to which these were limited by law.

The autonomous subject of law is represented in the plays considered here as a sentient political being whose natural rights and liberties found an analogue in the narratives of common law, as recorded in juristic texts and law reports of the early modern era. Each chapter reflects a particular aspect of constitutional development in the late-Elizabethan state.

These include abuse of the royal prerogative by the crown and its agents; the emergence of a politicised middle class citizenry, empowered by the ascendancy of contract law; the limitations imposed by the courts on the lawful extent of divinely ordained kingship; the natural and rational authority of unwritten lex terrae; the poetic imagination of the judiciary and its role in shaping the constitution; and the fusion of temporal and spiritual jurisdiction in the person of the monarch.

The book advances original insights into the complex and agonistic relationship between theatre, politics, and law. The plays discussed offer persuasive images both of the crown's absolutist tendencies and of alternative polities predicated upon classical and humanist principles of justice, equity, and community.

Subjects:
Constitutional and Administrative Law, General Interest
Contents:
Introduction
1. 'Terras Astraea reliquit': Titus Andronicus and the Flight of Justice
2. The Comedy of Errors and the Meaning of Contract
3. Reflections on the Art of Kingship: Richard II and the Subject of Law
4. The Poetic Imagination, Antique Fables and the Dream of Law
5. The Ancient Constitution, Common Law and the Idyll of Albion: Law and Lawyers in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
6. The Congregation of the Mighty: the Juridical State and the Measure of Justice Conclusion