Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Series Editor’s Preface vii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. ‘Perpetuall Reformation’ in Book V of Spenser’s Faerie Queene 32
7. Part I: Perfection
8. 2. Snaring Statutes and the General Pardon in the Gesta Grayorum 65
9. 3. Legal Excess in John Donne’s ‘Satyre V’ 98
10. Part II: Execution
11. 4. The Assize Circuitry of Measure for Measure 133
12. 5. The Winter’s Tale and the Oracle of the Law 171
13. Bibliography 199
14. Index 218