Shakespeare and the Law : A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions /

William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life, and trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bevington, David (Contribuidor), Brudney, Daniel (Contribuidor), Cavell, Stanley (Contribuidor), Cormack, Bradin (Contribuidor, Editor ), Eden, Kathy (Contribuidor), Fried, Charles (Contribuidor), Hutson, Lorna (Contribuidor), Jordan, Constance (Contribuidor), McAdams, Richard H. (Contribuidor), Nussbaum, Martha C. (Contribuidor, Editor ), O'Connor, Marie Theresa (Contribuidor), Posner, Richard A. (Contribuidor), Strier, Richard (Contribuidor, Editor ), Wood, Diane P. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]
Temas:
Law in literature > Congresses.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
shakespeare, classics, law, legal system, literature, justice, disobedience, justification, mercy, merchant of venice, julius caesar, cymbeline, politics, treason, national identity, community, king lear, commerce, contracts, oaths, othello, vengeance, complicity, criminality, guilt, statute, measure for, the winters tale, inquiry, evidence, sonnets, decision, possession, nonfiction, lawyer, supreme court, drama, equity, anglo-scottish union.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Shakespeare and The Law
  • Part I. How to Think "Law and Literature" in Shakespeare
  • two differences between law and literature
  • Decision, Possession: The Time of Law in The Winter's Tale and the Sonnets
  • "Lively Evidence": Legal Inquiry and the Evidentia of Shakespearean Drama
  • II. Shakespeare's Knowledge of Law: Statute Law, Case Law
  • Interpreting Statute in Measure for Measure
  • Vengeance, Complicity, and Criminal Law in Othello
  • Part III. Shakespeare's Attitudes toward Law ideas of justice
  • Law and Commerce in The Merchant of Venice
  • Opinion of Fried, J., Concurring in the Judgment
  • Equity in Measure for Measure
  • Shakespeare and Legal Systems: The Better the Worse (but Not Vice Versa)
  • Part IV. Law, Politics, and Community in Shakespeare
  • Liquid Fortification and the Law in King Lear
  • Saying in The Merchant of Venice
  • A British People: Cymbeline and the Anglo-Scottish Union Issue
  • "Romans, Countrymen, and Lovers": Political Love and the Rule of Law in Julius Caesar
  • A Lesson from Shakespeare to the Modern Judge on Law, Disobedience, Justifi cation, and Mercy
  • Part V. Roundtable
  • Shakespeare's Laws: A Justice, a Judge, a Philosopher, and an English Professor
  • Contributors
  • Index

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