عنوان

Lawyers at play :

شابک

0198769423

شابک

9780198769422

عنوان اصلي

Lawyers at play :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

literature, law, and politics at the early modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581 /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jessica Winston.

وضعيت ويراست

First edition.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Oxford :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2016.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiv, 270 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-261) and index.

متن يادداشت

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.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"Many early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court and these authors shaped the development of key genres of the English Renaissance, especially lyric poetry, dramatic tragedy, satire, and masque. But how did the Inns come to be literary centers in the first place, and why were they especially vibrant at particular times? Early modernists have long understood that urban setting and institutional environment were central to this phenomenon: in the vibrant world of London, educated men with time on their hands turned to literary pastimes for something to do. Lawyers at Play proposes an additional, more essential dynamic: the literary culture of the Inns intensified in decades of profound transformation in the legal profession. Focusing on the first decade of Elizabeth's reign, the period when a large literary network first developed around the societies, this study demonstrates that the literary surge at this time developed out of and responded to a period of rapid expansion in the legal profession and in the career prospects of members. Poetry, translation, and performance were recreational pastimes; however, these activities also defined and elevated the status of inns-of-court men as qualified, learned, and ethical participants in England's "legal magistracy": those lawyers, judges, justices of the peace, civic office holders, town recorders, and gentleman landholders who managed and administered local and national governance of England. Lawyers at Play maps the literary terrain of a formative but understudied period in the English Renaissance, but it also provides the foundation for an argument that goes beyond the 1560s to provide a framework for understanding the connections between the literary and legal cultures of the Inns over the whole of the early modern period." -- Book jacket.

موضوع مستند نشده

English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

Inns of Court-- History-- 16th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Law and literature-- England-- History-- 16th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

English literature-- Early modern.

موضوع مستند نشده

Inns of Court.

موضوع مستند نشده

Law and literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

England

موضوع مستند نشده

England.

بدون عنوان

7

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Winston, Jessica

تاريخ عمليات

20200822092432.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y