Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare

Autorentext

Adrian Howe is an Honorary Principal Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Klappentext

Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigate the provenance of the notion of a 'crime of passion' - indicatively, wife-killing.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Honourable anger, moral warrants for murder - Glossing Titus Andronicus

2 Othello - 'An honourable murderer, if you will'

3 'Unlucky deeds' - Passion's progress in the nineteenthcentury courts

4 Passions contained - 'Othello's crime was murder and nothing else'

5 Homicidal rage in 'modern times' - Passion unleashed

6 Red mist' rage unmasked

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index