Theaters of pardoning / Bernadette Meyler.

SeriesCorpus juris : the humanities in politics and law
Contents Introduction : theaters of pardoning -- Dramatic judgments : Measure for Measure, revenge, and the institution of the law -- Emplotting politics : James I and the "Powder Treason" -- The Laws of Candy : non-sovereign forgiveness and the generalizing of revenge -- From sovereignty to the state : the tragicomic clemency of Massinger's The Bondman -- Between royal pardons and acts of oblivion : the transitional justice of Cosmo Manuche and James Compton, Earl of Northampton -- Pardoning revolution : the 1660 Act of Oblivion and Hobbes's recentering of sovereignty -- Postlude : pardoning and liberal constitutionalism.
Abstract "This book aims to address the roots of pardoning's treatment in contemporary politics and uncover what new formulations of pardoning might contribute by examining what it calls "theaters of pardoning"--a form of tragicomedy--in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century England"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Meyler, Bernadette, author. Theaters of pardoning Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501739330
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LCCN 2019011012
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