Theaters of pardoning:
From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadet...
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| Zusammenfassung: | From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadette Meyler traces the roots of contemporary understandings of pardoning to tragicomic "theaters of pardoning" in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century England. Shifts in how pardoning was represented on the stage and discussed in political tracts and in Parliament reflected the transition from a more monarchical and judgment-focused form of the concept to an increasingly parliamentary and legislative vision of sovereignty.Meyler shows that on the English stage, individual pardons of revenge subtly transformed into more sweeping pardons of revolution, from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, where a series of final pardons interrupts what might otherwise have been a cycle of revenge, to later works like John Ford's The Laws of Candy and Philip Massinger's The Bondman, in which the exercise of mercy prevents the overturn of the state itself. In the political arena, the pardon as a right of kingship evolved into a legal concept, culminating in the idea of a general amnesty, the "Act of Oblivion," for actions taken during the English Civil War. Reconceiving pardoning as law-giving effectively displaced sovereignty from king to legislature, a shift that continues to attract suspicion about the exercise of pardoning. Only by breaking the connection between pardoning and sovereignty that was cemented in seventeenth-century England, Meyler concludes, can we reinvigorate the pardon as a democratic practice |
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| spelling | Meyler, Bernadette ca. 20./21. Jh. Verfasser (DE-588)1138128511 aut Theaters of pardoning Bernadette Meyler Ithaca ; London Cornell University Press [2019] © 2019 1 Online-Ressource (x, 308 Seiten) Illustrationen txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Corpus Juris : the humanities in politics and law From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadette Meyler traces the roots of contemporary understandings of pardoning to tragicomic "theaters of pardoning" in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century England. Shifts in how pardoning was represented on the stage and discussed in political tracts and in Parliament reflected the transition from a more monarchical and judgment-focused form of the concept to an increasingly parliamentary and legislative vision of sovereignty.Meyler shows that on the English stage, individual pardons of revenge subtly transformed into more sweeping pardons of revolution, from Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, where a series of final pardons interrupts what might otherwise have been a cycle of revenge, to later works like John Ford's The Laws of Candy and Philip Massinger's The Bondman, in which the exercise of mercy prevents the overturn of the state itself. In the political arena, the pardon as a right of kingship evolved into a legal concept, culminating in the idea of a general amnesty, the "Act of Oblivion," for actions taken during the English Civil War. Reconceiving pardoning as law-giving effectively displaced sovereignty from king to legislature, a shift that continues to attract suspicion about the exercise of pardoning. Only by breaking the connection between pardoning and sovereignty that was cemented in seventeenth-century England, Meyler concludes, can we reinvigorate the pardon as a democratic practice Geschichte 1600-1700 gnd rswk-swf England Performing Arts & Drama pardoning, theatricality, sovereignty, tragicomedy, Shakespeare, constitutional history LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare bisacsh Clemency in literature English drama (Tragicomedy) 17th century History and criticism Law and literature England History 17th century Pardon England History 17th century Pardon Political plays, English History and criticism Politics and literature England History 17th century Politics in literature Theater Political aspects England History 17th century Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Gnadenrecht Motiv (DE-588)4505486-1 gnd rswk-swf Drama (DE-588)4012899-4 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Drama (DE-588)4012899-4 s Gnadenrecht Motiv (DE-588)4505486-1 s Geschichte 1600-1700 z 1\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501739392 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Meyler, Bernadette ca. 20./21. Jh Theaters of pardoning England Performing Arts & Drama pardoning, theatricality, sovereignty, tragicomedy, Shakespeare, constitutional history LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare bisacsh Clemency in literature English drama (Tragicomedy) 17th century History and criticism Law and literature England History 17th century Pardon England History 17th century Pardon Political plays, English History and criticism Politics and literature England History 17th century Politics in literature Theater Political aspects England History 17th century Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Gnadenrecht Motiv (DE-588)4505486-1 gnd Drama (DE-588)4012899-4 gnd |
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| title | Theaters of pardoning |
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| title_full | Theaters of pardoning Bernadette Meyler |
| title_fullStr | Theaters of pardoning Bernadette Meyler |
| title_full_unstemmed | Theaters of pardoning Bernadette Meyler |
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| topic | England Performing Arts & Drama pardoning, theatricality, sovereignty, tragicomedy, Shakespeare, constitutional history LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare bisacsh Clemency in literature English drama (Tragicomedy) 17th century History and criticism Law and literature England History 17th century Pardon England History 17th century Pardon Political plays, English History and criticism Politics and literature England History 17th century Politics in literature Theater Political aspects England History 17th century Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Gnadenrecht Motiv (DE-588)4505486-1 gnd Drama (DE-588)4012899-4 gnd |
| topic_facet | England Performing Arts & Drama pardoning, theatricality, sovereignty, tragicomedy, Shakespeare, constitutional history LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare Clemency in literature English drama (Tragicomedy) 17th century History and criticism Law and literature England History 17th century Pardon England History 17th century Pardon Political plays, English History and criticism Politics and literature England History 17th century Politics in literature Theater Political aspects England History 17th century Englisch Gnadenrecht Motiv Drama |
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