Theaters of pardoning /
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.
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| Language: | English |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Corpus juris (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Table of 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.