Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court

Emma Rhatigan is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research and publications focus on early modern texts in performance and their audiences. She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (2011) and is editing a volume of John Donne’s Inns of Court sermons for The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne.Jackie Watson holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, UK, and is an independent scholar. Author of Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse (2024), she publishes on the intersection between law and drama, including essays in recent collections such as Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England: Actor, Audience and Performance (2022) and Shakespeare/Sense (2020).

• Chapter 1- Introduction.- Part 1.- Chapter 2- Acting Like a Lawyer.- Chapter 3- A ‘fellowship in sin’: John Donne and Community in the Lincoln’s Inn Pulpit.- Chapter 4-Observe him for the love of mockery.- Chapter 5- Notebooks, Play, and Legal Education at Middle Temple.- Chapter 6 - The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn.- Chapter 7- The Mad Butler of Gray’s Inn.- Chapter 8- From Inns of Court Revels and Masques to John Playford’s English Dancing Master.- Chapter 9- Mapping Selden’s Library.- Chapter 10- Lewiston Fitzjames and Other Stray Poets of the Inns of Court.- Part III-Beyond the Inns.- Chapter 11- George Gascoigne’s Proliferative Poetics.- Chapter 12- Gender, Revenge, and Legal Performance at the Inns of Court.- Chapter 13- Robert Ashley’s Translations and Paratexts (1589-1639).-  Chapter 13- Between Ship and Library Global Knowledge and Spaces of Exchange at the Middle Temple 1586 – 1636.