'Law and the Theatre: an early modern dialogue?' - Dr Subha Mukherji
Duration: 1 hour 1 min
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| Description: | Lecture given at the Fitzwilliam College Reunion weekend, Saturday 24 September 2016. |
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| Created: | 2016-10-05 16:09 | ||
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| Collection: | Fitzwilliam College lectures | ||
| Publisher: | Fitzwilliam College | ||
| Copyright: | Fitzwilliam College | ||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||
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| Keywords: | Law; Theatre; Shakespeare; Renaissance; England; | ||
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| Explicit content: | No | ||
| Abstract: | Why were early modern playwrights - Shakespeare and Co. - so obsessed with legal problems and trial scenes? What did the theatre and the law share as institutions and cultural practices, and what were their crucial differences? This talk will offer a glimpse of both the physical overlap between the literary (especially dramatic) and legal cultures in Renaissance England, and the theoretical interrelation that formed the core of this dialogue. |
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