Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court

Jayne Elisabeth Archer is Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Aberystwyth University. Elizabeth Goldring is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Sarah Knight is Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Leicester.

• Contents/List of illustrations/Contributors/Acknowledgements/AbbreviationsPreface: Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, and Sarah Knight1. The third university 1450-1550: Law school or finishing school?: J. H. BakerI. History: Education, Religion, Politics, and the LawIntroduction: education, religion, politics, and law at the early modern Inns of Court: Jayne Elisabeth Archer2. The Inner Temple revels (1561-62) and the Elizabethan rhetoric of signs: Paul Raffield3. Gospel, law, and ars prædicandi at the Inns of Court, c.1570-c.1640: Hugh Adlington4. The Inns of Court and the common law mind: The case of James Whitelocke: Damian X. Powell5. ‘The sinful history of mine own youth’: John Donne preaches at Lincoln’s Inn: Emma Rhatigan6. Readers’ dinners and the culture of the early modern Inns of Court: Wilfrid PrestII. Art, Architecture, and GardensIntroduction: the art, architecture, and gardens of the early modern Inns of Court: Elizabeth Goldring7. The halls of the Elizabethan and early Stuart Inns of Court: Mark Girouard8. Professional pride and personal agendas: Tarnya Cooper9. The evolution of the early gardens of the Inns of Court: Paula Henderson10. The rebuilding of the Inns of Court, 1660-1700: Geoffrey TyackIII. Literature and DramaIntroduction: literature and drama at the early modern Inns of Court: Sarah Knight11. Lyric poetry at the early Elizabethan Inns of Court: Jessica Winston12. The evidential plot: Shakespeare and Gascoigne at Gray’s Inn: Lorna Hutson13. Locating The Comedy of Errors: Bradin Cormack14. Law sports and the night of errors: Shakespeare at the Inns of Court: Richard McCoy15. New light on drama, music, and dancing at the Inns of Court to 1642: Alan H. NelsonSelect bibliography of secondary criticismIndex

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