The Monarchical Republic, Constitutionality, and the Legal Profession

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ID23463572
AuthorsPaul Raffield (University of Warwick, corresponding author)
EditorsLorna Hutson (0000-0003-4712-6551)
Year2017
Publication date2017-08-10
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueOxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660889.013.27
OpenAlexW1931683617
ISBN9780199660889
LanguageEN
References cited17

This chapter analyses the theme of constitutionality, arguing that the symbolism of the Elizabethan Inns of Court revels involves elements of ‘monarchical republicanism’. It analyses Gerard Legh’s description of his visit to the Inner Temple revels of 1561/62, at which Gorboduc was originally performed. It interprets Gorboduc in relation to Elizabethan political literature (notably Sir Thomas Smith’s De republica Anglorum) and to Sir John Fortescue’s De laudibus legum Angliae. Finally, the chapter considers Gorboduc in relation to Renaissance theories surrounding the didactic aim of poetic drama, particularly to Sir Philip Sidney’s argument, in The Defence of Poesie, that poetry performed a crucial political and moral role, which was to teach as well as to delight.

Absolute monarchy · Art · Constitution · Constitutionality · Drama · Literature · Monarchy · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Relation (database) · Revels · Theme (computing) · Classics · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy

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