Prerogative, Law and Order in Drama, 1625–1642
by
Jessica Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Considering plays by Philip Massinger, Richard Brome, Ben Jonson, John Ford and James Shirley, this study addresses the political import of Caroline drama as it engages with contemporary struggles over authority between royal prerogative, common law and local custom in seventeenth-century England....