Shakespeare and Law.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (349 pages)
- Arden Critical Companions Series .
- Arden Critical Companions Series .
Cover -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- Chapter One: Preamble: 'How shall I understand you?' -- Chapter Two: Shakespeare's Legal Life -- Chapter Three: The Love of Persons: Common Law and the Epistemology of Conscience in the Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint -- Chapter Four: Wasting Time: Conditionality and Prosperity in As You Like It and the Second Tetralogy -- Chapter Five: Rex v. Lex, or, the Proud Issue of a King -- Chapter Six: The Report of the Cause of Hamlet -- Chapter Seven: Codicil: the Maxim and the Analogy -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Andrew Zurcher takes a fresh, historically sensitive look at Shakespeare's meticulous resort to legal language, texts, concepts, and arguments in a range of plays and poems.
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Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Law. Law in literature.