Royal Pardon
Author : William Bosch
Publisher :
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : 9781770310681
Author : William Bosch
Publisher :
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 32,4 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Christian biography
ISBN : 9781770310681
Author : Sir George STEPHEN
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 1852
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Author : John Arden
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 1991-06-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780413649409
This collection brings together some of the best and most frequently performed plays by John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy whose collaboration stems from the political years of the Sixties The Business of Good Government is a nativity play which develops a sense of a disappearing community; Ars Longa Vita Brevis is composed out of children's games and The Royal Pardon tells the story of the adventures of a group of strolling players who fall in with a deserter from the war in Flanders. Other plays in this collection such as Little Gray Home in the West and The Vandaleur's Folly arise from the highly charged political arena of the 1970s in Ireland. Arden and D'Arcy have been consistently interested in using drama to extend the very boundaries of national identity and human freedom.
Author : Margaret Robinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Kindness
ISBN : 0955582938
Author : John Arden
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Helen Lacey
Publisher : York Medieval Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153284
Pioneering investigation of the royal pardon, looking at the wider implications it held beyond the purely legal.
Author : John Arden
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Bernadette Meyler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501739409
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.
Author : Sir George Stephen
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 1852
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Author : John Arden
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Page : 109 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 1967
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