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"In this richly conceived and tightly argued study of legal reform as one index of law's openness and ongoing potential, Virginia Lee Strain details how Elizabethan poets and dramatists exploited the formal resources of genre, plot, and language to reimagine and even re-authorize the attempts at law, both professional and political, to bring greater efficiency and consistency to the administration of justice. A terrific achievement.-- ""Bradin Cormack, Princeton University"" This is an erudite study and a significant contribution to our understanding of the often submerged ways law and literature have always spoken to and about each other. English Renaissance scholars in particular will appreciate the comprehensiveness of Strain's argument.--Karen J. Cunningham, University of California, Los Angeles ""Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 4"" This monograph delivers an insightful, interdisciplinary perspective on rhetorical and representation practices used to supervise English law at the turn of the seventeenth century.--Jessica Apolloni ""Shakespeare Studies"""

In this richly conceived and tightly argued study of legal reform as one index of law's openness and ongoing potential, Virginia Lee Strain details how Elizabethan poets and dramatists exploited the formal resources of genre, plot, and language to reimagine and even re-authorize the attempts at law, both professional and political, to bring greater efficiency and consistency to the administration of justice. A terrific achievement.-- ""Bradin Cormack, Princeton University"" This is an erudite study and a significant contribution to our understanding of the often submerged ways law and literature have always spoken to and about each other. English Renaissance scholars in particular will appreciate the comprehensiveness of Strain's argument.--Karen J. Cunningham, University of California, Los Angeles ""Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 4"" This monograph delivers an insightful, interdisciplinary perspective on rhetorical and representation practices used to supervise English law at the turn of the seventeenth century.--Jessica Apolloni ""Shakespeare Studies""

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Virginia Lee Strain is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. She has held fellowships at The Huntington Library, Vanderbilt University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Her articles have appeared in ELH and Literature Compass, and in several essay volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 (OUP, 2017), Shakespeare and Judgment (EUP, 2016), and Taking Exception to the Law (UTP, 2015). Her dissertation won the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize from the Shakespeare Association of America (2011).

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