Research output per year
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Project Details
Description
The project explored the connections between English legal culture and the drama of Renaissance England, and found important affinities. These were partly due to the dissemination of classical texts on forensic rhetoric, and partly due to England's participatory justice system. It resulted in a monograph, 'The invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama' (Oxford. 2007).
Layman's description
English Renaissance drama shares with popular English legal culture a new interest in narrative enquiry which, in the drama is productive of a new psychological realism.
Key findings
1. formal connections between modes of dramatic composition and modes of legal enquiry.
2. new insights into the relations between law and literature in sixteenth century England.
3. new ways of understanding the legal dimensions of Shakespeare's thinking about politics.
4. new readings of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
5. A new understanding of the forensic aspects of Renaissance mimesis.
6. A significant challenge to the application of Foucault's model of law and punishment to the understanding of sixteenth century English legal and literary culture.
2. new insights into the relations between law and literature in sixteenth century England.
3. new ways of understanding the legal dimensions of Shakespeare's thinking about politics.
4. new readings of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
5. A new understanding of the forensic aspects of Renaissance mimesis.
6. A significant challenge to the application of Foucault's model of law and punishment to the understanding of sixteenth century English legal and literary culture.
| Acronym | Invention of Suspicion AH/D500923/1 |
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| Status | Finished |
| Effective start/end date | 25/09/06 → 19/01/07 |
Funding
- Arts and Humanities Research Board: £33,789.00
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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'The evidential plot: Shakespeare and Gascoigne at Gray's Inn'
Hutson, L. M., 2011, The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court . Archer , J. E., Goldring , E. & Knight , S. (eds.). Manchester : Manchester University Press, p. 245-263 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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'Che indizio, che prova...?': Ariosto's Legal Conjectures and the English Renaissance Stage
Hutson, L. M., 2010, Italy in the drama of Europe . Ascoli, A. R. & West, W. (eds.). Evanston : Northwestern University Press , p. 179-205 27 p. (Renaissance Drama; New Series; vol. 36/37).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Law, Crime and Punishment
Hutson, L. M., 2010, Ben Jonson in Context . Sanders , J. (ed.). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, p. 221-228 7 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Activities
- 4 Invited talk
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Keynote speech at 'Law Matters in Language and Literature', University of Athens
Hutson, L. M. (Keynote/Plenary speaker)
5 May 2011 → 8 May 2011Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Law and Literature: Intensive Seminar, Norwegian Institute, Rome
Hutson, L. M. (Invited speaker)
4 Nov 2010 → 6 Nov 2010Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Shakespeare and the Law, University of Chicago Law School
Hutson, L. M. (Invited speaker)
15 May 2009Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk