Lawyers at play [electronic resource] : literature, law, and politics at the early modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581 / Jessica Winston.
Winston, Jessica, author.
2016
PR428.A8 W56 2016eb
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Title
Lawyers at play [electronic resource] : literature, law, and politics at the early modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581 / Jessica Winston.
Author
Winston, Jessica, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191822421 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198769422
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198769422 doi
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PR428.A8 W56 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9003
Summary
'Lawyers at Play' examines why literary communities developed around the Inns of Court in the 1560s and how these communities helped to shape the development of key genres in English Renaissance literature.
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'Lawyers at Play' examines why literary communities developed around the Inns of Court in the 1560s and how these communities helped to shape the development of key genres in English Renaissance literature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 15, 2016).
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Introduction: lawyers at play
Part I: Society at the Early Modern Inns of Court
An intellectual topography of the early modern Inns of Court
'Minerva's men': the Inns of Court in the 1560s
Part II: The Translation of Learning
Lyric poetry: forming a professional community
Translatio studii in early Elizabethan England
Part III: Literary-Political Precedents
The Mirror for magistrates: political discourse and the legal magistracy
Senecan tragedy in early Elizabethan England
Part IV: To Fashion an Institution
Gorboduc in the political nation
Marriage plays at the Inns: negotiating professional jurisdiction
Conclusion: lawyers at play redux
Appendix 1. Literary men of the Inns of Court, 1558-1572
Appendix 2. First editions of classical translations, 1558-1581
Appendix 3. Description of Gorboduc at the Inner Temple.

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