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Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581
Lawyers at Play examines why literary communities developed around the Inns of Court in the 1560s and how these communities helped to shape the development of key genres in English Renaissance literature.
Author(s) | By Jessica Winston (Professor of English, Professor of English, Idaho State University). |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Format | Paperback / softback |
Pages | 288 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 29 Sept 2022 |
Availability | Available |
Lawyers at Play examines why literary communities developed around the Inns of Court in the 1560s and how these communities helped to shape the development of key genres in English Renaissance literature.
Jessica Winston is Professor of English at Idaho State University, where she specializes in sixteenth-century literature and Shakespeare. She is the author numerous articles are the early modern Inns of Court and, with James Ker, she is co-editor of Eliza