Shakespeare and the law : a conversation among disciplines and professions /
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| Imprint: | Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013. ©2013 |
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| Description: | 335 pages ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9041673 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Shakespeare and the Law
- 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
- 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)
- 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, Justification, and Mercy
- V. Roundtable
- Shakespeare's Laws: A Justice, a Judge, a Philosopher, and an English Professor
- Contributors
- Index
