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"Our Cities Institutions" And The Institution Of The Common Law, Bernadette Meyler
"Our Cities Institutions" And The Institution Of The Common Law, Bernadette Meyler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The audiences of early modern English drama were multiple, and they intersected with the legal system in various ways, whether through the cross-pollination of the theaters and the Inns of Court, the representations of the sovereign’s justice performed before him, or the shared evidentiary orientations of jurors and spectators. As this piece written for a symposium on “Reasoning from Literature” contends, Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure addressed to these various audiences the question of whether the King should judge in person. In doing so, it drew on extant political theories suggesting that the King refrain from exposing himself to public censure …
Theaters Of Pardoning: Tragicomedy And The Gunpowder Plot, Bernadette Meyler
Theaters Of Pardoning: Tragicomedy And The Gunpowder Plot, Bernadette Meyler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This article examines the dramatic character of King James I’s reaction to the 1605 Gunpowder Plot - the first act of terrorism in the West - and his attempts both to inscribe the unprecedented crime within the conventional structure of revenge tragedy and to interpret the event according to a model of tragicomedy indebted to John of Patmos' apocalyptic Revelation. On account of applying these cultural and religious paradigms, the King suggested that Parliament be entrusted with judging the conspirators, thus imaginatively displacing his sovereignty onto it.