The Culture of Equity in Early Modern England

Auteur

Mark Fortier is Director, School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Canada. He is the author of Theory/Theatre: an Introduction and co-editor of Adaptations of Shakespeare and Royal Subjects: Essays on the Writings of James VI and I. He has a law degree from the University of Toronto, Canada.

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Elizabeth and James, Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Bacon and Ellesmere, Perkins and Laud, Milton and Hobbes: this begins a list of early modern luminaries who write on 'equity'. In this study Mark Fortier addresses the concept of equity from early in the sixteenth century until 1660, drawing on the work of lawyers, jurists, politicians, kings and parliamentarians, theologians and divines, poets, dramatists, colonists and imperialists, radicals, royalists, and those who argue on gender issues.

Contenu

Contents: Introduction: Roguish thing; Christian equity; Equity and law; Political equity; Poetic equity; Equity and others; Radical equity; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.