This collection features the work of both established and up-and-coming scholars in the UK and US, with contributors including Peter Goodrich, Lorna Hutson, Erica Sheen and David Colclough studying the period of the English Renaissance from the 1520s to the 1660s. This wide-ranging study, working on the edge of new historicism as well as book history, covers topics such as libel/slander and literary debate, legal textual production, authorship and the politics of authorial attribution and theatre and the law.

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DAVID COLCLOUGH Lecturer in English, Queen Mary, University of London, UK PETER GOODRICH Professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, New York, USA INA HABERMANN Lecturer in English Literature & Cultural Studies, University of Erlangen SUBHA MUKHERJI Lecturer and Director of Studies in English, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK MARCUS NEVITT Lecturer in English Literature, University of Sheffield, UK MICHELLE O'CALLAGHAN Senior Lecturer in English, Oxford Brookes University, UK ALAN STEWART Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, USA and Associate Director of the AHRB Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, London, UK LUKE WILSON Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University, USA SUE WISEMAN Teaches in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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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