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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jessica Winston (Professor of English, Professor of English, Idaho State University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.442kg ISBN: 9780192872326ISBN 10: 019287232 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 29 September 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsWinston is to be congratulated on a learned study which illuminates the cultural predilections of the early modern Inns, and the hitherto understudied social and political imperatives which informed them. * Philip Major, Modern Language Review * Each chapter is full of telling details, compelling argument, and, as a whole, the book succeeds in both its project of recovery and revaluation and in demonstrating how the culture of the Inns responds to profound changes in the Elizabethan polity. Lawyers at Play is an excellent book, a major contribution to the field of law and literature and early modern studies generally. * Edward Gieskes, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England * Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 15581581 brings together over a decade's worth of articles, book chapters and new research in illustrating both how and why the Inns of Court grew into one of Englands most vibrant and major literary communities during the middle part of the sixteenth century. * Emily Buffey (University of Birmingham), Journal of the Northern Renaissance * Winston skilfully and successfully addresses the subject of the interface between law, lawyers and poetry during the Elizabethan period. In nine tautly written chapters, she provides a lucid account of the peculiar contribution of lawyer-poets at the Inns to the juridical and political culture of the Elizabethan state. * Paul Raffield, Law and Humanities * Overall it is impossible to do justice to this rich and densely packed volume, with its extensive bibliography. It certainly reinforces the idea that that culture is intimately connected with political outlook. * Anna Brunton (University of Oxford), British Society for Literature and Science * A long overdue examination of the literary network that coalesced around the legal societies of the Inns of Court in the 1560s. * Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 * Winston's analyses are ... patient, careful and illuminating, such that this book offers more than a few valuable correctives to commonplace notions of the Inns and verdicts on the literature produced there. It encourages one to look forward to future studies, whether by Winston or by those whom this book will inspire, on the clusters of early modern Inns writers that came subsequently: in the 1590s; in the 1610s; in the 1630s-40s. * J. Christopher Warner, English Historical Review * Author InformationJessica Winston is Professor of English at Idaho State University, where she specializes in sixteenth-century literature and Shakespeare. She is the author numerous articles are the early modern Inns of Court and, with James Ker, she is co-editor of Elizabethan Seneca: Three Tragedies (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2012). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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