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Cover; Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations and Symbols; ABBREVIATIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL INNS OF COURT AND INNS OF CHANCERY; OTHER SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction: Lawyers at Play; THE INNS IN THE 1560s; LAW AND LITERATURE; 'THE RESOURCES OF KIND': GENRE AT THE INNS; THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN EARLY MODERNITY; Part I: SOCIETY AT THE EARLY MODERN INNS OF COURT; 1: An Intellectual Topography of the Early Modern Inns of Court; The Inns of Court : a Complex Institution Legal TrainingCorporate Culture; Communal Tensions; Literary Terrain; 2: 'Minerva's Men': The Inns of Court in the 1560s; Humanism, Commonweal, and the Vita Activa; Lawyers Wanted; Leaders for Commonweal; Institutional Status; Part II: THE TRANSLATION OF LEARNING; 3: Lyric Poetry: Forming a Professional Community; Two Kinds of Poetry; Barnabe Googe's Eclogues: Negating the Erotic; Creating Community in Googe's Answer Poetry; Turberville 's Poetry: Negotiating Friendships; Gascoigne's Poetry: Imitation and Parody; Communal Poetry; 4: Translatio Studii in Early Elizabethan England Reading TranslationsVersions of Cicero; Translatio Imperii and Translatio Studii; Translations for the Common Reader; Translation and Elizabethan Literature; Translations and Political Society at the Inns; Part III: Literary-Political Precedents; 5: The Mirror for Magistrates: Political Discourse and the Legal Magistracy; The Project of the Mirror; Adaptations of De Casibus; A Collaborative Conversation; A Mirror for Political Reflection; The Mirror Among the Men at the Inns; 6: Senecan Tragedy in Early Elizabethan England; The Politics of Seneca in Early Elizabethan England Heywood's Troas: A Mirror for ElizabethNeville's Oedipus as Moral and Political Counsel; Senecan Politics in Elizabethan Drama; Part IV: To Fashion an Institution; 7: Gorboduc in the Political Nation; The Occasional Politics of Gorboduc; Collaborative Counsel; The Place of the Play; Authorizing Counsel; The Reception of Gorboduc; 8: Marriage Plays at the Inns: Negotiating Professional Jurisdiction; 'Diana/Pallas'; Two Marriage Orations by Thomas Pound; Gascoigne's Supposes; Gascoigne and Kinwelmersh's Jocasta; Gismond of Salerne; Conclusion: Lawyers at Play Redux; Homo Ludens Literary Play and the Legal ProfessionLiterary Play and Political Culture; Appendix 1: Literary Men of the Inns of Court, 1558-72; Appendix 2: First Editions of Classical Translations, 1558-81; Other Literary, Rheto rical, and Philosophical Works; Lives and Histo ries; Other Works; Appendix 3: Description of Gorboduc at the Inner Temple; Bibliography; MANUSCRIPT SOURCES; PRE-1700 PRINT SOURCES; POST-1700 PRINT SOURCES; Index |
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