Lines of Equity: Literature and the Origins of Law in Later Stuart England

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209 Index Abdiel, in Paradise Lost, 89–90 Aboan, in Southerne’s Oroonoko, 182 abolitionism, 163, 181, 184 Abraham, in Paradise Lost, 95–96 Absalom and Achitophel, 19, 65, 69 absolutism, 2–3, 82–83, 152, 154, 182–83 See also monarchism; sovereignty: jure divino kingship Achinstein, Sharon, 76–77, 87, 98 Act of Habeas Corpus, 69–70 Act of Indemnity, 136 Act of Oblivion, 134, 136 Adam, in Paradise Lost, 105–11 Adams, John, 113–14, 121, 150, 154 Advancement of Learning,The, 21 Aeschylus, 23, 43 Agamben, Giorgio, 69–70 Agricola, 15 Albion and Albanius, 69 Alibech, in The Indian Emperour, 47–48, 52, 54–57 Almeria, in The Indian Emperour, 54–56, 60–61 Alzire, 40 Amboyna, 171n America, colonial and late Stuart republicanism, 113–14, 125, 135, 143, 145, 153–54 See also New World Andromache, in Dryden’s Troilus and Cressida, 70 Anglo-Saxonism, 19–21 Apologie (Algernon Sidney), 145, 147, 149 Apologie for Poesy (Philip Sidney), 24 apostasy, rejected by republicans, 135, 138, 139 Aravamudan, Srinivas, 180 Aristotle, 26, 37, 48, 169 and equity, 4–7, 31n on fictional method, 23–24 and “natural slavery,” 183 Ars Poetica, 22–23 Art of Lawgiving,The, 124–25 Artegall, in The Faerie Queene, 11 Ascham,Anthony, 82–83 Astrea Redux, 18–19, 35, 47 Athey, Stephanie, 170n Augustine, 9 Bacon, Francis, 21 Bacon, Nathaniel, in The Widow Ranter, 173–75, 177–78, 179 Bacon’s rebellion, 173n Banister, in Behn’s Oroonoko, 168 Banks, John, 64 barbarism and Behn’s Oroonoko, 167–68, 172, 179 English, 12–21, 65–66, 69, 117, 155–63, 173–74, 176–79, 187n tempered by literature, 3–4, 12, 30 See also fiction: as civilizing influence 210 Index Behn,Aphra, 3, 34, 69, 122, 158, 159, 162, 180, 181, 184 her political thought, 155–57, 160–61, 163, 173–76, 178, 179 See also Oroonoko (Behn); Widow Ranter,The Benjamin,Walter, 31, 46, 133, 146 Betterton,Thomas, 66, 73, 74 biblical criticism and interpretation, 83–86 Black Legend, 38, 42, 52, 189 Blanford, in Southerne’s Oroonoko, 181–83 Bodin, Jean, 14, 16 Boozer, Justice, in The Widow Ranter, 176–77 Boym, Svetlana, 63 Braverman, Richard, 191 Britomart, in The Faerie Queene, 11, 63 Brown, Laura, 167, 168, 171 Brut legend. See Troy legend Brutus, Lucius Junius, in Lucius Junius Brutus, 152–53 Brutus of Alba, 64 Burke, Peter, 157–58 Burnet, Gilbert, 137, 141, 146 Burroughs, Edmund, 14 Byam, in Behn’s Oroonoko, 167–68 Caesar, Julius, 15 Camden,William, 63 Capel,Arthur, Earl of Essex, 144 Cases of Conscience Practically Resolved, 53 casuistry, 53 and Dryden, 29–30, 42 and Paradise Lost, 104 Catholicism, 49, 50, 75, 158, 164, 168 Cavendish, Margaret, 53, 119 Cavernio, in The Widow Ranter, 174, 175 Chandler, James, 150 Charles I, 81–82, 168 Charles II, 19, 36, 41, 58, 89n, 114, 115, 134, 136–39, 141, 143–44, 166, 171 CharlesV, 46–47 Cicero, on equity, 7–9, 10 Clarendon Codes, 35, 52 Clarendon, Earl of. See Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon class and Behn, 161, 162, 169, 175–76, 178–79 and literary audience, 24–29 and national identity, 157–58 seventeenth-century, 13 clemency. See mercy and clemency Clifford, James, 160 Coke, Edward, 12, 123, 151 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 150 on Robinson Crusoe, 189–90, 193 colonialism, 160–61, 162 and Behn’s Oroonoko, 165, 170–71 and race, 158, 167 and Southerne’s Oroonoko, 180 and The Widow Ranter, 174, 178–79 constitutionalism, as lacking passion, 151–52 Contract,The, 53, 119 Corns,Thomas, 77–78n Cortez, in The Indian Emperour, 41, 44–48, 50–52, 54–56, 58–61 Cover, Robert, 2, 117 Cowley,Abraham, 33 Cressida, in Dryden’s Troilus and Cressida, 71–72 Cromwell, Oliver, 19 Crowne, John, 64 Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru,The, 26, 42, 48n Crusoe, Robinson, in Robinson Crusoe, 186, 188–93 Cydaria, in The Indian Emperour, 46–47, 54, 58–61 Cyrus the Great, 24 Daniel, Samuel, 160–61 Daring, in The Widow Ranter, 174, 178 Davenant,William, 21, 33, 37, 40, 42, 48n, 62 his literary theory, 25–29 Davideis, 33 de Gomberville, Marin le Roy, 43 de inventione (Cicero), 7–8 de officiis (Cicero), 8–9 de Oviedo, Gonzalo, 44, 48n de Sepulvéda, Juan Ginés, 48–49 Death, in Paradise Lost, 83, 91–92 decisionist theory of sovereignty, 133–34 Defence of an Essay of Dramatick Poesy, 37 Defense of the Indians, In, 49 Defoe, Daniel...