...Focusing on Cure for a Cuckold (1624), this chapter examines the question of jurisdictional complexity internal to English law by tracking how the sea's disruptive energies implode, claustrophobically, into the space of London. Written by John Webster, William Rowley, and John...

... Stephen Goodrich Peter Lockey Brian Pacheco Anita Sale Carolyn Schoenbaum S Stretton Tim Thomas Brook Wilson Luke Shakespeare Hamlet English law legal concept legal systems Shakespeare’s most famous character offers us a striking entry into the question of how Shakespeare responded to the law...

... Helmholz R H Catholicism dogma ethics Henry VIII legitimacy nature Auerbach Erich Augustine Cormack Bradin love Maule Jeremy Žižek Slavoj Coolidge John reason Sheehan Jonathan Christian Bible testament Hebrews 9 secular law Matthias Flacius Illyricus John Donne common law English law...

... and liberalism of such enduring principles. Blackstone adopted to a large extent Lord Hawkesbury's less jingoistic, but still patriotic mode, mostly citing Montesquieu for general principles of liberty, and when citing him on specific laws, French or otherwise, usually doing so in support of English law...

...This book investigates the intersection of English law and literature from John Skelton to John Webster. It takes as its subject the cultural meaning of “jurisdiction” during a transitional period when that technical category in law came under peak pressure, in immediate response to specific...

..., as well as the traditions of dissent and suppression. Not only did the English law punishing speech apply in the colonies, but many colonies adopted additional laws to restrict expression. Does democracy require the protection of free expression? In 1948, Alexander Meiklejohn wrote: “The principle...

...English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation and also to heightened litigation and legal professionalization. As the common law became more comprehensive and systematic, the principle of jurisdiction came under particular strain. When...