Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Theaters of Pardoning
ONE. Dramatic Judgments: Measure for Measure, Revenge, and the Institution of the Law
TWO. Emplotting Politics: James I and the "Powder Treason"
THREE. Non-Sovereign Forgiveness: Mercy among Equals in The Laws of Candy
FOUR. From Sovereignty to the State: The Tragicomic Clemency of Massinger's The Bondman
FIVE. Between Royal Pardons and Acts of Oblivion: The Transitional Justice of Cosmo Manuche and James Compton, Earl of Northampton
SIX. Pardoning Revolution: The 1660 Act of Oblivion and Hobbes's Recentering of Sovereignty
Postlude: Pardoning and Liberal Constitutionalism
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index