Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. 1. Law and the Production of Literature: An Introductory Perspective 3
6. 2. Paper Justice, Parchment Justice: Shakespeare, Hamlet, and the Life of Legal Documents 44
7. 3. Conditional Promises and Legal Instruments in The Merchant of Venice 71
8. 4. The “Snared Subject” and the General Pardon Statute in Late Elizabethan Coterie Literature 100
9. 5. The Prison Diaries of Archbishop Laud 120
10. 6. Criminal Biography in Early Modern News Pamphlets 137
11. 7. Two-Sided Legal Narratives: Slander, Evidence, Proof, and Turnarounds in Much Ado About Nothing 162
12. 8. No Boy Left Behind: Education and Distributive Justice in Early Modern England 179
13. 9. Warding off Injustice in Book Five of The Faerie Queene 204
14. 10. Torture and the Tyrant’s Injustice from Foxe to King Lear 225
15. 11. The Literatures of Toleration and Civil Religion in Post-Revolutionary England 258
16. 12. Obnoxious Satan: Milton, Neo-Roman Justice, and the Burden of Grace 281
17. Contributors 303
18. Index 307