Conscience and Satire in A Play of Love

John Heywood ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 98-112
Author(s):  
Greg Walker
Keyword(s):  
Star Chamber

This chapter argues that the fall of Wolsey and the promotion of More to the chancellorship also inform Heywood’s next major dramatic work, A Play of Love. Evidently designed for performance either at Lincoln’s Inn or on Rastell’s household stage, the play offers a parodic legal moot on the question of happiness and unhappiness in love. But it also offers sharp satire of the judicial methods allegedly characteristic of Wolsey’s conduct in the courts of Chancery and Star Chamber, and offers sober counsel to More as he prepared to take on the responsibility of presiding over the ‘courts of conscience’ in Wolsey’s stead.

The treatise on the star chamber

1873 ◽  
Vol s4-XII (301) ◽  
pp. 275-275
Author(s):  
W. F. F.
Keyword(s):  
Star Chamber

Star Chamber Mythology

1961 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Star Chamber

The ‘star Chamber’ and the ‘wasp.’

1888 ◽  
Vol s7-VI (149) ◽  
pp. 347-347
Author(s):  
Henry Saxby
Keyword(s):  
Star Chamber

scholarly journals VI. Observations upon certain Proceedings in the Star-chamber against Lord Vaux, Sir Thomas Tresham, Sir William Catesby, and others, for refusing to swear that they had not harboured Campion the Jesuit: in a Letter from John Bruce, Esq. F.S.A. to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary; followed by a narrative of the Proceedings

Archaeologia ◽  
1844 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 64-110
Author(s):  
John Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Star Chamber

I send you a transcript of a paper which I am surprised not to find published in any of the printed collections of State Trials. It possesses sufficient importance, both historical and legal, to have entitled it to a place in those collections; but, as it has not been noticed by their editors, nor, as far as I know, been printed elsewhere, it may be thought worthy of a place in the Archseologia. It has reference to some very important transactions in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and relates to persons and families who were themselves of considerable name, and the immediate descendants of some of whom were connected with subsequent events of still greater interest; it is, moreover, one of the most minute accounts we possess of a proceeding ore tenus in the star-chamber, and records the opinions of the highest legal officers of that day upon some important questions in constitutional law. In the expectation that these circumstances will be thought sufficient to entitle this paper to a place in the transactions of the Society of Antiquaries, I shall preface it with some observations upon the persons and events with which it is connected.

1780–1820 Southey’s New Star Chamber: Literature, Revolution, and Romantic-Era Libel

2019 ◽  
pp. 221-282
Author(s):  
Thomas Keymer
Keyword(s):  
Free Radical ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Robert Southey ◽  
Political Tension ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Star Chamber ◽  
William Cobbett

Phases of high political tension during the Romantic period, notably under Pitt after the French Revolution and under Liverpool following the Napoleonic Wars, indicate the ongoing importance, and sometimes the severity, of press control between 1780 and 1820. But control was becoming more difficult in practice, and the consequences for poetry and other literary genres are sometimes overstated at a time when the overwhelming priority for the authorities was cheap (or worse, free) radical print. This chapter surveys key cases of prosecution and/or pillorying across the period (Daniel Isaac Eaton, Walter Cox, William Hone, William Cobbett), and argues that the writers now central to the Romantic canon were relatively unaffected. The striking exception is Robert Southey, whose incendiary Wat Tyler, which embarrassingly emerged at the height of Southey’s Tory pomp two decades later, is newly contextualized and interpreted.

‘In Corona Populi’

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-67
Author(s):  
K.J. Kesselring
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Death ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
Active Intervention ◽  
Lay Participation ◽  
Financial Interests ◽  
Star Chamber ◽  
Over Time

Chapter 2 examines the coroner’s inquest, asking how homicides become known and categorized, and how this changed over the period. Coroners held an office that dated from the late twelfth century, but one freshly charged from around 1487, when statutes sought to press the coroners to action through fees and fines. The coroners’ determinations of the nature of a sudden death, in early years, focused on the financial incidents owed to the king. Over time, financial interests in a killing became more diffuse and the king’s interests became more expansively understood. The active intervention of the Privy Council and the Court of Star Chamber helped police the efforts of inquests. The mix of lay participation and central oversight gave the early modern inquest a special flavour. Coroners’ inquests came to be seen as serving not just the king’s interest and the king’s peace, but something conceived as public justice.

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