A Revenger’s Tragedy

Abstract

Abstract From its very inception modern “law and literature” scholarship has exhibited at least as much interest in what happens in the classroom as it has in what happens in the courtroom. Its principal ambition is educative, its primary audience student. In a strategic sense it hopes that the deployment of literary texts might enhance a law student’s appreciation of the human dimension of legal practice. The first part of this article will set the jurisprudential context, taking a closer look at the evolving legal regulation of “revenge porn,” as well as the critical debate which this regulation has stimulated. The second will then consider the dramatic presentation of the same issues and arguments in Placey’s play. According to Placey, any “time we write a script, we’re hoping in some way people will listen, that our words might have an effect, that they might shake people.” Evan Placey in “Sexting in Parliament: insights from the writer and director of Girls Like That,” in The Play Ground, March 24, 2014, available at: http://nickhernbooksblog.com/category/nhb-author/evan-placey (last accessed February 2, 2017). The final part will contemplate the extent to which this aspiration is realised in Girls Like That.