Reviews for Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England

The average rating for Theaters of Intention: Drama and the Law in Early Modern England based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-02-12 00:00:00 Kathy Matherson It was an interesting read and good criticsm but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wasn't extremely interested in Aphra Behn

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-08 00:00:00 Alvis Champlin The author places the plays of the Jacobean period within the context of the society and politics of the time, thus refuting the idealist interpretation that the individuals in the plays are some sort of essential humans with eternal values. In other words it promotes a cultural materialism vs an idealist white European male humanism. For that it is excellent. However my Shakespeare chauvinism shows in that I find the analyses of the Shakespeare plays ever so much more interesting than that of the other plays. I wish he'd chosen more Shakespeare.