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Raffield, Paul (2017) The monarchical republic : constitutionality and the legal profession. In: Hutson, Lorna, (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700. Oxford handbooks . Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 163-179. ISBN 9780199660889
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Abstract
It is the purpose of this essay to analyse the theme of legal constitutionality, by reference to the republican symbolism of the Elizabethan Inns of Court revels. Relevant to this analysis is the description by Gerard Legh of his visit to the Inner Temple revels of1561-62, at which Gorboduc was originally performed. In a broader theoretical context, the themes addressed by Gorboduc are considered in relation to Elizabethan political literature (notably Sir Thomas Smith’s De Republica Anglorum) and with regard to a prototypical work of late medieval/early modern, English constitutional theory, De Laudibus Legum Angliae, written by Sir John Fortescue. Finally, Gorboduc is considered in the context of Renaissance theories surrounding the didactic aim of poetic drama, with allusion to the ideal articulated by Sir Philip Sidney in The Defence of Poesie, that poetry performed a crucial political and moral role, which was to teach as well as to delight.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KM Common Law, Public Law | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Inns of Court, Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584 -- Gorboduc, Sackville, Thomas 1536-1608 -- Gorboduc, Inner Temple (London, England), Legh, Gerard, -1563, Fortescue, John, Sir, 1394?-1476?, Common law, Verse drama, Poetry | ||||||
Series Name: | Oxford handbooks | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780199660889 | ||||||
Book Title: | The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 | ||||||
Editor: | Hutson, Lorna | ||||||
Official Date: | June 2017 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 832 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 163-179 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660889.013.27 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Raffield, Paul (2017) The monarchical republic : constitutionality and the legal profession. In: Hutson, Lorna, (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700. Oxford handbooks . Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 163-179. reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-english-law-and-literature-1500-1700-9780199660889?cc=gb&lang=en&# | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 24 May 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 June 2019 | ||||||
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