Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England

Author/Contributor(s):	Wilson, Luke
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	12/01/2000
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.