Download or read book The Invention of Suspicion written by Lorna Hutson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorna Hutson argues that changes in the English justice system in the sixteenth century towards greater participation (by JPs and jurors) had a decisive impact on English Renaissance drama. Her nuanced and closely researched book sheds new light on much of what we take for granted about character and plot in Shakespearean drama.