Includes bibliographical references (pages [204]-222) and index.
Contents:
'England's rubidg' : Mary Carleton and the early use of transportation. 'Hollow-hearted angels' : coins, counterfeits and the discourses of treason -- 'The woman's case put to the lawyers' : miscarriage of justice and the case of Anne Greene -- Pardon and oblivion : pardon, benefit of clergy, Peine forte et dure -- 'England's rubidg' : Mary Carleton and the early use of transportation.
Summary:
"In a period in which some three hundred crimes were designated as felonies and punishable by death, a consideration of crime must inevitably lead to a preoccupation with consequences. Crime and Consequence in Early Modern Literature and Law analyses contemporary literary and legal texts, including drama, poetry and commentaries on the law, and considers how 'proportionable' punishment was imagined in the early modern period and how the possibility of justice miscarried might influence that imagining."--Page [4] of cover.
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