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Crime and consequence in early modern literature and law / Judith Hudson.

By: Material type: Computer fileComputer filePublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 231 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781399513432
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.933554
Online resources: Summary: In a period in which some three hundred crimes were designated as felonies and punishable by death, a consideration of crime must inevitably lead to a preoccupation with consequences. This volume analyses contemporary literary and legal texts, including drama, poetry and commentaries on the law, and considers how 'proportionable' punishment was imagined in the early modern period and how the possibility of justice miscarried might influence that imagining.
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In a period in which some three hundred crimes were designated as felonies and punishable by death, a consideration of crime must inevitably lead to a preoccupation with consequences. This volume analyses contemporary literary and legal texts, including drama, poetry and commentaries on the law, and considers how 'proportionable' punishment was imagined in the early modern period and how the possibility of justice miscarried might influence that imagining.

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