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Article: Hutson, Lorna. 2007. The invention of suspicion: law and mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama. Oxford: Oxford University Press. $99.00 hc. 383 pp.(Book review)
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- January 1, 2009
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We usually speak of casting suspicion or having it raised, but in these times when terrorism and counter-terrorism can be hard to distinguish, we have had to relearn what it means to invent suspicion. That there is a long history of individuals and governments inventing such a thing--of generating suspicion about those persons "which walke in the night, or sleep in the day," as William Lambarde prescribed for Elizabethan constables (Hutson 331)--should at least give us pause to suspect our own suspicions. Indeed, the use of suspicion, whether there is something to be suspicious about or not, has comprised a master political art in modernity, and perhaps the very hallmark ...
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