Shakespeare and the law

Shakespeare and the law

Shakespeare and the law

Law of the United Kingdom and Ireland > England and Wales > KD671.A7

Edition Details

  • Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): Paul Raffield, Gary Watt
  • Language: English
  • Jurisdiction(s): England
  • Publication Information: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2008
  • Publication Type (Medium): Conference papers and proceedings, History, Kongress, Congresses
  • Material: Conference publication
  • Type: Book
  • Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/shakespeare-and-the-law/ (Stable identifier)

Short Description

XIII, 310 pages ; 24 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Shakespeare and the law is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

  • Publisher: Hart
  • Responsable Person: edited by Paul Raffield and Gary Watt.
  • Publication Date: 2008
  • Country/State: England
  • Number of Editions: 9 editions
  • First edition Date: 2008
  • Last edition Date: 2008
  • General Notes: Papers delivered at the conference “Shakespeare and the Law” held at the University of Warwick in the summer of 2007.
  • Languages: English
  • Library of Congress Code: KD671.A7
  • Dewey Code: 349.4209031
  • ISBN: 9781841138251 1841138258
  • OCLC: 216663254

Main Contents

Shakespeare, money and the law of contract.
Shakespeare and specific performance / Mark Fortier
Consideration, contract and the end of The comedy of errors / Andrew Zurcher
Shakespeare, women and the law.
The bawdy court / Jonathan Bate
Shakespeare and the marriage contract / Germaine Greer
Judging Isabella : justice, care and relationships in Measure for measure / Erika Rackley
Shakespeare and the law of love.
Shakespeare possessed : legal affect and the time of holding / Bradin Cormack
The tragedy of law in Shakespearean romance / Katrin Tru?stedt
Law and its subversion in Romeo and Juliet / Daniela Carpi
Justice and the royal prerogative.
‘The king is a thing’ : the king’s prerogative and the treasure of the realm in Plowden’s report of the Case of mines and Shakespeare’s Hamlet / Carolyn Sale
Inheritance in the legal and ideological debate of Shakespeare’s King Lear / Giuseppina Restivo
Violence, the state and the citizen.
Punishment theory in the Renaissance : the law and the drama / Harry Keyishian
Terrorists and equivocators / Ian Ward
‘Terras astraea reliquit’ : Titus Andronicus and the loss of justice / Paul Raffield
Titus Andronicus vs Le more cruel and Les Portugais infortune?s : humiliation, punishment and VIolence in the Shakespearean and French theatre of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century / Christian Biet
The merchant of Venice and the infinite meanings of ‘law’.
The law of dramatic properties in The merchant of Venice / Gary Watt
Shylock in Transylvania : anti-Semitism and the law in east central Europe / Istva?n Poga?ny
Shylock as a politician / Anton Schu?tz
The concept and performance of ‘The code’ in The merchant of Venice / Richard H. Weisberg.

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