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The Law In Shakespeare

  • The Law In Shakespeare

  • Title

    • Early Modern Literature In History

  • Attribution

    edited by Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham

  • Publication Details

    Book, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

  • Availability

    LOCATIONCALL #STATUS
     (UPPER LEVEL)  PR3028 .L39 2007  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    The essays focus on four general areas of interest to establish the vital connections between early modern drama and law during this seminal period in their professionalization: legal language and its construction of social norms and realities, positive law and the status of nature; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

  • Authors

  • Subject

  • Contents

    • English law in Shakespeare’s plays / Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham
    • Drama, law, and rhetoric in the age of Coke and Shakespeare / Allen D. Boyer
    • The wilde side of justice in early modern England and Titus Andronicus / Dympna Callaghan and Chris R. Kyle
    • "Like to a tenement" : landholding, leasing, and inheritance in Richard II / William O. Scott
    • Cast out of Eden: property and inheritance in Shakespearean drama / Nancy E. Wright and A. R. Buck
    • Avoiding the issue of fraud: 4, 5 Philip & Mary c.8 (the Heiress Protection Statute), Portia and Desdemona / Charles Ross
    • Accomplished with what she lacks: law, equity, and Portia’s con / Thomas C. Bilello - - Drama and marine insurance in Shakespeare’s London / Luke Wilson
    • Noises off: participatory justice in 2 Henry VI / Lorna Hutson
    • Truth, lies, and the law of slander in Much Ado About Nothing / Cyndia Susan Clegg
    • The "amending hand": Hales v. Petit, Eyston V. Studd, and equitable action in Hamlet / Carolyn Sale
    • Macbeth: absolutism, the ancient constitution, and the aporia of politics / Peter C. Herman
    • Arms and laws in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus / Rebecca Lemon
    • Measure for Measure and the law of nature / Elizabeth Hanson

  • ISBN

    • 1403992142
    • 9781403992147

  • LCCN

  • Open Library ID

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