This seminar will study representations of female felons in popular news pamphlets and broadside ballads printed in England 1550-1700, as well as several dramatic works based upon these accounts such as Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women. It will consider the relationship between these documents and evolving legal discourses and jurisdictions, contemporary theories of domestic and gender relations, and the enforcement of social order. Most documents will be read in original sixteenth- and seventeenth-century editions.
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