Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Note on Citations xv
6. Prologue: A Power to Do Justice 1
7. Introduction: Literature and Jurisdiction 11
8. 1. Centralization
9. 1. “Shewe Us Your Mynde Then”: Bureaucracy and Royal Privilege in Skelton’s Magnyfycence 47
10. 2. “No More to Medle of the Matter”: Thomas More, Equity, and the Claims of Jurisdiction 85
11. 2. Rationalization
12. 3. Inconveniencing the Irish: Custom, Allegory, and the Common Law in Spenser’s Ireland 133
13. 3. Formalization
14. 5. “To Stride a Limit”: Imperium, Crisis, and Accommodation in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Pericles 227
15. 6. “To Law for Our Children”: Norm and Jurisdiction in Webster, Rowley, and Heywood’s Cure for a Cuckold 291
16. Notes 331
17. Index 387