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OverviewBringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a ‘crime of passion’ – indicatively, wife-killing. Its key concern is to bring attention to a cultural and legal revolution widely overlooked even in the law field where it occurred. In 2009, the English Parliament passed a controversial law abolishing the defence of provocation. Explaining the new law, reformers said that this so-called ‘heat of passion’ defence had allowed men to get away with murder by blaming the victim. Abolishing it in cases of alleged ‘infidelity’ would ‘end the culture of excuses’. Unpacking what was at stake in the reformers’ revolutionary challenge to the English law of murder’s age-old concession to ‘human frailty’ in ‘red mist’ rage cases, this book charts passion’s progress in wife-killing cases over the centuries. It commences in the early modern era when jurists were busy distinguishing murder from manslaughter and, contemporaneously, Shakespeare set about querying culturally inscribed excuses for femicide in his plays, Titus Andronicus and Othello. This book will appeal to feminist and socio-legal scholars, criminologists and those working in the fields of law and literature, legal theory and Shakespeare studies. More widely, it will appeal to anyone interested in so-called ‘crimes of passion’. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adrian Howe (University of Melbourne, Australia)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge ISBN: 9781032295206ISBN 10: 1032295201 Pages: 210 Publication Date: 09 October 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Honourable anger, moral warrants for murder – Glossing Titus Andronicus 2 Othello – ‘An honourable murderer, if you will’ 3 ‘Unlucky deeds’ – Passion’s progress in the nineteenthcentury courts 4 Passions contained – ‘Othello’s crime was murder and nothing else’ 5 Homicidal rage in ‘modern times’ – Passion unleashed 6 Red mist’ rage unmasked Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index ReviewsAuthor InformationAdrian Howe is an Honorary Principal Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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