Literature, Politics and Law in Renaissance England

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Renaissance, Law and Literature; E.Sheen & L.Hutson Amici curiae: Lawful Manhood and Other Juristic Performances in Renaissance England; P.Goodrich Instigating Treason: The Life and Death of Henry Cuffe, Secretary; A.Stewart 'Unmanly indignities': Adultery, Evidence and Judgement in Heywood's A Woman Killed With Kindness ; S.Mukherji 'She has that in her belly will dry up your ink': Femininity as Challenge in the 'equitable drama' of John Webster; I.Habermann Renaissance Tool Abuse and the Legal History of the Sudden; L.Wilson Taking Liberties: George Wither's A Satyre , Libel and the Law; M.O'Callaghan Freedom of Speech, Libel and the Law in Early Stuart England; D.Colclough John Selden among the Quakers: Antifeminism and the Seventeenth Century Tithes Controversy; M.Nevitt Martyrdom in a Merchant World: Law and Martyrdom in the Restoration Memoirs of Elizabeth Jekyll and Mary Love; S.Wiseman Index