Taking exception to the law : materializing injustice in early modern English literature / edited by Donald Beecher, Travis DeCook, Andrew Wallace, and Grant Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Volume 1. Law and the Production of Literature: An Introductory Perspective -- volume 2. Paper Justice, Parchment Justice: Shakespeare, Hamlet, and the Life of Legal Documents -- volume 3. Conditional Promises and Legal Instruments in The Merchant of Venice -- volume 4. The "Snared Subject" and the General Pardon Statute in Late Elizabethan Coterie Literature -- volume 5. The Prison Diaries of Archbishop Laud -- volume 6. Criminal Biography in Early Modern News Pamphlets -- volume 7. Two-Sided Legal Narratives: Slander, Evidence, Proof, and Turnarounds in Much Ado About Nothing -- volume 8. No Boy Left Behind: Education and Distributive Justice in Early Modern England -- volume 9. Warding off Injustice in Book Five of The Faerie Queene -- volume 10. Torture and the Tyrant's Injustice from Foxe to King Lear -- volume 11. The Literatures of Toleration and Civil Religion in Post-Revolutionary England -- volume 12. Obnoxious Satan: Milton, Neo-Roman Justice, and the Burden of Grace.

Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions.

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