A Power to Do Justice

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Citations

Prologue: A Power to Do Justice
Introduction: Literature and Jurisdiction

Part I     Centralization
1     “Shewe Us Your Mynde Then”: Bureaucracy and Royal Privilege in Skelton’s Magnyfycence
2     “No More to Medle of the Matter”: Thomas More, Equity, and the Claims of Jurisdiction

Part II     Rationalization
3     Inconveniencing the Irish: Custom, Allegory, and the Common Law in
Spenser’s Ireland
4     “If We Be Conquered”: Legal Nationalism and the France of
Shakespeare’s English Histories

Part III     Formalization
5     “To Stride a Limit”: Imperium, Crisis, and Accommodation in
Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Pericles
6     “To Law for Our Children”: Norm and Jurisdiction in Webster, Rowley,
and Heywood’s Cure for a Cuckold

Notes
Index