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• Winner of Winner of the 2017 Roland H. Bainton Reference Book Prize, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC)..

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Lorna Hutson's magisterial Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 seeks to interrogate the 'menage a trois' between law, literature, and history...The sections of the volume deliberately juxtapose chapters by authors from different disciplines to generate further cross-pollination. * Harriet Archer, The English Association * With its compelling reading of The Merchant of Venice, its rigorous research, and its clarity of style, Skinner's chapter shines as an exemplar of the very best of Shakespearean scholarship. * Louise Powell, The English Association *

Lorna Hutson's magisterial Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 seeks to interrogate the 'menage a trois' between law, literature, and history...The sections of the volume deliberately juxtapose chapters by authors from different disciplines to generate further cross-pollination. * Harriet Archer, The English Association * With its compelling reading of The Merchant of Venice, its rigorous research, and its clarity of style, Skinner's chapter shines as an exemplar of the very best of Shakespearean scholarship. * Louise Powell, The English Association * The contributions to this collection are consistently outstanding * Feisal G. Mohamed, CUNY, Renaissance Quarterly *

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Lorna Hutson is Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. Educated in San Francisco, Edinburgh, and Oxford, she has taught at the Universities of St Andrews, UC Berkeley, Hull, and Queen Mary, London. She has served as Head of English at St Andrews (2008-11) and has held fellowships from the Folger, the Huntingdon, the Guggenheim, and the Leverhulme Trust. Her books include Thomas Nashe in Context (1989), The Usurer's Daughter (1994), and The Invention of Suspicion (2007). Circumstantial Shakespeare (2015) was based on the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures in 2012. She has also edited Ben Jonson's Discoveries (1641) for the Cambridge Complete Works of Ben Jonson (2012) and written numerous articles on Renaissance topics.

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