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• Winner of Roland H Bainton Prize 2008.
• Winner of Winner of the Roland Bainton Prize in Literature for 2008.

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Hutson's is a major work that will influence scholarship in a number of disciplines. Anthony DiMatteo, College Literature ...an innovative examination of the intersections between legal culture and the drama of Renaissance England...This ambitious study is thus an important intervention in debates about politics, law, and, of course, theatre. Futhermore, the original interpretation that it offers of a range of Shakespeare's plays means that it will be of interest to a wide audience. Edel Lamb MLR ...this deeply researched and engaging book stands as an important contribution to the study of the many fascinating relationships between law and literature in the Renaissance. Harry Keyishian, Renaissance Quarterly Hutson's wide-ranging study addresses Elizabethan literary developments of great interest. B. J. Sokol, The Review of English Stuides ...essential reading for every serious student of Renaissance drama. Frances E. Dolan, The Huntington Library Quarterly an ingenious, original, thoroughly researched study Peter Holbrook, Times Literary Supplement

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Lorna Hutson was born in Germany to Scottish parents and was educated in San Francisco, Edinburgh, and Oxford. At Oxford she wrote a PhD thesis on Thomas Nashe which was published by OUP as Thomas Nashe in Context (1989). From 1985-1998 she was Lecturer and then Reader at Queen Mary College, London, and wrote The Usurer's Daughter (Routledge, 1994). In 2001, as Professor of the University of California, Berkeley, she edited, with Victoria Kahn, Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe. She was the recipient, in 2004-5 of an award from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to write The Invention of Suspicion. She is currently Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

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