{"product_id":"lawyers-at-play-literature-law-and-politics-at-the-early-modern-inns-of-court-1558-1581-paperback","title":"Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJessica Winston\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany early modern poets and playwrights were also members of the legal societies the Inns of Court, and these authors shaped the development of key genres of the English Renaissance, especially lyric poetry, dramatic tragedy, satire, and masque. But how did the Inns come to be literary centres in the first place, and why were they especially vibrant at particular times? Early modernists have long understood that urban setting and institutional environment were central to this phenomenon: in the vibrant world of London, educated men with time on their hands turned to literary pastimes for something to do. \u003cem\u003eLawyers at Play\u003c\/em\u003e proposes an additional, more essential dynamic: the literary culture of the Inns intensified in decades of profound transformation in the legal profession. Focusing on the first decade of Elizabeth's reign, the period when a large literary network first developed around the societies, this study demonstrates that the literary surge at this time developed out of\u003cbr\u003eand responded to a period of rapid expansion in the legal profession and in the career prospects of members. Poetry, translation, and performance were recreational pastimes; however, these activities also defined and elevated the status of inns-of-court men as qualified, learned, and ethical participants in England's 'legal magistracy': those lawyers, judges, justices of the peace, civic office holders, town recorders, and gentleman landholders who managed and administered local and national governance of England. \u003cem\u003eLawyers at Play\u003c\/em\u003e maps the literary terrain of a formative but understudied period in the English Renaissance, but it also provides the foundation for an argument that goes beyond the 1560s to provide a framework for understanding the connections between the literary and legal cultures of the Inns over the whole of the early modern period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJessica Winston, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, Idaho State University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJessica Winston is Professor of English at Idaho State University, where she specializes in sixteenth-century literature and Shakespeare. She is the author numerous articles are the early modern Inns of Court and, with James Ker, she is co-editor of \u003cem\u003eElizabethan Seneca: Three Tragedies\u003c\/em\u003e (Modern Humanities Research Association, 2012). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.32 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47477755609266,"sku":"9780192872326","price":71.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/7d39f066f16c38bd2d28486a85f4660f.webp?v=1779207588","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/lawyers-at-play-literature-law-and-politics-at-the-early-modern-inns-of-court-1558-1581-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}