Author: Wendy Scase

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-03-29

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0199270856

Giving a different perspective on the relations between early judicial process & the development of literature in England, this book argues that texts ranging from political libels & pamphlets to laments of the unrequited lover constitute a literature shaped by the crucial role of complaint in the law courts.