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020			_a9781399513432 _qebook _cNo price
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100			_aHudson, Judith, _eauthor. _923115
245			_aCrime and consequence in early modern literature and law / _cJudith Hudson.
260			_aEdinburgh : _bEdinburgh University Press, _c2021.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 231 pages).
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aLaw and literature _zEngland _xHistory. _923116
650			_aLaw in literature. _923117
650			_aLaw _zEngland _xHistory. _923118
651		0	_aEngland _xSocial conditions. _923119
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474454353.001.0001
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